Romney: Military needs more troops
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday repeated his call to add more troops, saying the Iraq war had left the nation's military seriously stressed.
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney called for "new course" in the fight against terrorists on Thursday and, in a swipe at Democrat John Edwards, said: "The war on terror is not a bumper sticker." Speaking to a conservative group, Romney argued that "there is a real war being waged by violent jihadists."
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President Bush said that the U.S. should expand the size of its armed forces to cope with what he suggested would be a long battle against Islamic extremism.
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The U.S. military commander in Iraq said on Thursday he currently saw no immediate need to request more U.S. troops other than those already announced, but they would need to stay "well beyond the summer".
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Warning that the active-duty Army "will break" under the strain of today's war-zone rotations, the nation's top Army general yesterday called for expanding the force by 7,000 or more soldiers a year and lifting Pentagon restrictions on involuntary call-ups of Army National Guard and Army Reserve troops....
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The increase in US troop strength in Iraq announced last week is not likely to be enough, Sen. John McCain said Sunday. McCain told &quot;Fox News Sunday&quot; that more troops probably will be required
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Defense officials are not ruling out the possibility that they will need more U.S. troops to secure January's elections in increasingly violent Iraq, but believe Iraqi and perhaps international troops may be able to do the job instead, a top general said Wednesday.
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John McCain accused Mitt Romney of wanting to withdraw troops from Iraq, drawing immediate protest from his Republican presidential rival who said: "That's simply wrong and it's dishonest, and he should apologize."
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Mitt Romney's eyes filled with tears Monday as the Republican presidential contender recalled watching the casket of a soldier killed in Iraq return to the United States and imagined if it were one of his five sons.
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Republican Mitt Romney said Thursday he would be willing to use a military blockade or "bombardment of some kind" to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon.
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Britain's military is at the limit of its capacity and can barely cope with the demands placed on it, the head of Britain's army told The Guardian in an interview published in the newspaper's Monday edition.
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More troops must be deployed in Darfur now, even without full equipment, the area's peacekeeping chief says.
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Seven Republicans joined Democrats today in supporting a proposal to give American troops more time between deployments.
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The U.S. Army must keep growing and needs easier access to reservists to avoid "breaking" the active-duty force, the top Army general said on Thursday.
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In a slip of the tongue, Republican Mitt Romney accused Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama of urging terrorists to congregate in Iraq.
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PORTLAND, Maine - US Sen. Susan Collins wrote to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday to reiterate her concerns that thousands of Humvees in Iraq lack sufficient armor.
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Mitt Romney said Friday that presidential rivals Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee need to raise a jaw-dropping $20 million in the next few months to join him in the top tier of the Republican GOP field, raising the stakes in a nomination fight altered by a tumultuous week.