Bush keeping Iraq troop levels mostly steady
President George W. Bush on Tuesday announced he would cut US troops strength in Iraq by 8,000 in coming months, and that he would send 4,500 troops to Afghanistan by January, when he leaves the White House.
President Bush is keeping the U.S. force strength in Iraq largely intact until the next president takes over, drawing rebukes from Democrats who want the war ended and a more sizable troop shift to troubled Afghanistan.
Progress on the ground in Iraq will make possible the return of a estimated 3,500 support unit troops in coming months, a Marine battallion by November and an army brigade by February, Bush said in a speech in Washington.
There are about 146,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.
In November a Marines battallion was to be deployed in Afghanistan, to be followed by an army combat unit in January, Bush told an audience at the National Defense University.
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