Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the USA Today, "Bush Embraces Halt in U.S. Troop Withdrawals."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the USA Today, "Bush Embraces Halt in U.S. Troop Withdrawals."
President Bush's decision Thursday to give his top commander in Iraq "all the time he needs" before proposing any further troop reductions sets up a battle later this month over the next $108 billion funding request and another this fall over the war's political fallout.
In a 17-minute White House speech, Bush endorsed Gen. David Petraeus' recommendation to keep U.S. troop levels at about 140,000 after five brigades are withdrawn by this summer. [...]
His emphasis on Iran recognizes that it is "a key argument politically now for staying the course in Iraq," said Anthony Cordesman, a Middle East expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Iraq is a key buffer in containing Iran right now."
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