Washington, Dec 10: The United States military
will not be vulnerable after four of the army's ten divisions
come home from Iraq to rest and retrain early next year, the
Defence Department's top General said.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard Myers also
asserted the US is "clearly" winning in Iraq.
"This international coalition is not going to let
... The former regime elements that are fighting US win,"
Myers told reporters. "We're going to win. That's it."
Myers and US Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld
cautioned, however, that a recent decline in anti-coalition
attacks in Iraq may be temporary.
"It's a bit early to call it a trend," Rumsfeld
said, adding that he believes more attacks on American troops
in Iraq are inevitable.
They spoke on a day when suicide bombers set off
explosions at the gates of two us military bases, injuring
scores of American troops, most of them slightly. The
coalition is increasingly able to thwart such attacks before
they happen, Myers said.
"Our ability to gather intelligence and target
specifically folks that are in the bomb-making business has
gone up dramatically," Myers said. "We have had a real
spike up in Iraqis coming forward to provide intelligence."
Bureau Report
