{"id":625,"date":"2006-01-09T18:01:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T18:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comw.org\/pda\/?p=625"},"modified":"2012-10-10T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:10:08","slug":"more-troops-for-iraq-time-to-just-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/more-troops-for-iraq-time-to-just-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"More troops for Iraq? Time to just say &#8220;No&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/fulltext\/0701bm39.pdf\" target=\"_newtab\" rel=\"noopener\">(printable PDF version)<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/0701bm39.html\" target=\"_newtab\" rel=\"noopener\">(HTML version)<\/a>\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em>by Carl Conetta,<em> PDA Briefing Memo #39, <\/em>09 January 2006. \u00a0There is no reason to believe that a marginal increase in the US troop presence in Iraq will turn the tide there. 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