What's missing from this story?
President George W. Bush will tell the United States this week he plans to reduce U.S. troop presence in Iraq by about 30,000 by next summer, basing those and further cuts on continued progress, the Associated Press has learned.
The impression is that Bush has some choice in the matter and that the situation in Iraq is the determining factor for the drawdown.
The truth is that the US doesn't have enough replacement forces to keep troop levels at this strength and that the only other option to cutting the number of troops back to their regular levels would be to again increase tour lengths and shorten recovery times.
It would be nice if our media would point that out.
