Condi Rice told the Senate that the US's ability to leave Iraq depended on increasing the number of Iraqi forces to provide security. Unfortunately according to Global Security, a private intelligence service, "The US has made essentially no progress in increasing the number of Iraqi forces during the year 2004..."
"Even more striking are the changes between August 2004 and October 2004.....Over this three month period, the objective end-strength of Iraqi forces increased from 265,900 to 346,700, while the shortfall of troops increased from 30,100 to 165,500 over this same period."
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