Looking pretty bad for the 3rd Infantry. Please keep them in your hearts and thoughts as this tragic "peace" turns into more hell.


U.S. Delays Pullout in Iraq
The Pentagon again postpones a withdrawal of 3rd Infantry soldiers. The move comes as India backs out of its promise to send a contingent.

By Esther Schrader and Paul Richter, Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON -- Postponing troops' return to their families for the second time in two months, the Pentagon announced Monday that more than 10,000 soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division would not, as they had been told, be coming home by the end of September.

The announcement came as India said it would not send a promised division that would have added 17,000 troops to the forces on the ground, although the Pentagon said there was no connection between the extended deployment and New Delhi's decision.

Two-thirds of the division will remain in Iraq "indefinitely," said Richard Olson, a spokesman for the division at Ft. Stewart, Ga., its headquarters...




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