7,000 more troops.

By Amanda Terkel on Mar 2, 2007 at 9:50 am

Pentagon officials yesterday told a Senate committee that the President’s escalation in Iraq will require 28,500 troops, 7,000 more than Bush has requested. Last month, the Congressional Budget Office estimated “that as many as 28,000 extra troops would be needed to support the escalation.”

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