prepared to say now, general, that you are going to meet the deadline all combat troops will be out and the total forces, u.s. force letts b forces willw 50,000 by the end of august? we are on target to be at 50,000 by august. we will still we will have formations here that are able to train combat formations. we will still be able to conduct counter terrorism operations. we will still be able to support provincial reconstruction teams. we are at about 95,000 today, chris. so i our plans are intact. i feel very comfortable with our plan and unless something unforeseen and disasterrous happens i fully expect us to be at 50,000 by the first of september. chris: general, this is another aspect to this and that is that there is widespread speculation in iraq that the u.s. will try to negotiate, renegotiate the status of forces agreement that calls for all u.s. forces to be out by
prepared to say now, general, that you are going to meet the deadline all combat troops will be out and the total forces, u.s. force letts b forces willw 50,000 by the end of august? we are on target to be at 50,000 by august. we will still we will have formations here that are able to train combat formations. we will still be able to conduct counter terrorism operations. we will still be able to support provincial reconstruction teams. we are at about 95,000 today, chris. so i our plans are intact. i feel very comfortable with our plan and unless something unforeseen and disasterrous happens i fully expect us to be at 50,000 by the first of september. chris: general, this is another aspect to this and that is that there is widespread speculation in iraq that the u.s. will try to negotiate, renegotiate the status of forces agreement that calls for all u.s. forces to be out by
security situation, are you prepared to say now, general, that you are going to meet the deadline all combat troops will be out and the total forces, u.s. force letts b forces willw 50,000 by the end of august? we are on target to be at 50,000 by august. we will still we will have formations here that are able to train combat formations. we will still be able to conduct counter terrorism operations. we will still be able to support provincial reconstruction teams. we are at about 95,000 today, chris. so i our plans are intact. i feel very comfortable with our plan and unless something unforeseen and disasterrous happens i fully expect us to be at 50,000 by the first of september. chris: general, this is another aspect to this and that is that there is widespread speculation in iraq that the u.s. will try to negotiate, renegotiate the status of forces agreement that calls for all u.s. forces to be out by