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| South Korea to Send 3,000 Troops to Iraq |
| 2004-06-18 |
| EFL South Korea will send 3,000 soldiers to northern Iraq beginning in early August to assist the U.S.-led coalition, the Defense Ministry said Friday. Once the deployment is complete, South Korea will be the largest coalition partner after the United States and Britain. South Korea plans to send 900 troops to Kurdish-controlled Irbil in early August, followed by about 1,100 troops between late August and early September, Defense Ministry spokesman Nam Dai-yeon said. Another 1,000 soldiers will travel to Iraq later. |
| Posted by:Dragon Fly |
| #5 BH, you hit it on the head...however I would go one further, have S korea keep it's own troops around it's own DMZ, and we pull our 37,000 troops out and send them to Iraq/Afgan to buffer our guys! Sounds good to me. |
| Posted by: smn 2004-06-18 3:04:59 PM |
| #4 The SKors are running some troops through Iraq to give them some seasoning and live combat. When the balloon goes up, it'll come in handy. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-06-18 1:42:31 PM |
| #3 BH, Shipman - I agree but having SK send their troops helps kill the US unilateral theme Kerry and the Dems are pushing. |
| Posted by: AWW 2004-06-18 12:35:22 PM |
| #2 How about SKORs send 10,000 and we don't remove the Patriot batteries? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-18 10:11:10 AM |
| #1 How about we send 3,000 of our guys from SKorea, and they can put their 3,000 troops where ours used to be? |
| Posted by: BH 2004-06-18 9:46:19 AM |