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Bush Plan for Iraq Requests More Troops and More Jobs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010707Y.shtml
President Bush's new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of forces that could
add as many as 20,000 American combat troops to Baghdad, supplemented with a
jobs program costing as much as $1 billion intended to employ Iraqis in projects
including painting schools and cleaning streets, according to American officials
who are piecing together the last parts of the initiative.