US to withdraw up to 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia: Bush
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The United States will withdraw up to 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia over the next decade, President George W. Bush said, in a move aimed at increasing the capability to fight the "war on terror" and meet other new threats.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday announced plans to shift 60,000 to 70,000 U.S. troops who are now stationed in Europe and Asia in one of the largest troop realignments since the end of the Cold War...
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President George W. Bush said on Thursday 3,200 more U.S. troops being deployed to Afghanistan will help NATO forces launch a spring offensive against the Taliban.
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President George W. Bush will on Monday announce the withdrawal of up to 100,000 US troops from Europe and Asia as part of a major defense reorganization, officials said.
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US President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair have urged NATO countries to send extra troops to insurgency-hit Afghanistan, and drop conditions on the use of their forces which are complicating the mission.
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Britain said on Wednesday it would begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, triggering a new political standoff in Washington over U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to deploy thousands of extra U.S. soldiers.
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The United States plans to withdraw  about 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia in a major realignment  of American military presence prompted by the end of the Cold  War and the beginning of the war on terrorism, U.S. officials  said on Saturday.
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President George W. Bush said on Thursday the United States would keep higher troop levels in Afghanistan in anticipation of fierce fighting against the Taliban this spring after the most violent year since the hard-line group was ousted.
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The United States, under pressure  from South Korea, has agreed to stretch over an additional  three years until 2008 the withdrawal of 12,500 American  troops, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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The United States agreed under pressure from South Korea Wednesday to stretch out over an additional three years until 2008 the withdrawal of 12,500 US troops from that country.
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Democrat John Kerry on Wednesday planned to attack President Bush's proposal to withdraw 70,000 American troops from Europe and Asia as a threat to national security that could blunt the war on terror, campaign aides said.
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The Bush administration will ask the U.S. Congress next week for $70 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and related operations for part of the 2009 fiscal year, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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With violence on the decline in Iraq but on the upswing in Afghanistan, President Bush is facing new pressure from the U.S. military to accelerate a troop drawdown in Iraq and bulk up force levels in Afghanistan, according to senior U.S. officials.
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WASHINGTON/SEOUL  - The United States agreed under  pressure from South Korea Wednesday to stretch out over an  additional three years until 2008 the withdrawal of 12,500 U.S.  troops from that country.
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CINCINNATI - President Bush on Monday announced plans to shift as many as 70,000 U.S. troops who are now stationed in Western Europe and Asia in one of the largest realignments since the end of the Cold War...
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U.S. President George W. Bush plans to unveil the most sweeping redeployment of U.S. military forces in nearly 60 years today, a plan to bring home as many as 100,000 soldiers from Germany, South Korea and ...
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President Bush today announced an increase in U.S. forces in Afghanistan "for the foreseeable future" to help confront a resurgent Taliban, and he urged European allies to lift restrictions that currently confine some of their NATO troops to secure areas of the country.