Bush says Iraqi troops playing bigger role - Yahoo! News

Bush says Iraqi troops playing bigger role - Yahoo! News:

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
President George W. Bush, facing waning public support for
Iraq war, said on Wednesday Iraqi troops are taking a bigger role against the Iraqi insurgency and offered hope U.S. troops could come home.
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(ED - WHICH IS IN DIRECT OPPOSITION TO...)

There are persistent questions about the quality of the trained Iraqi forces and the degree to which they have been infiltrated by insurgents. Senior U.S. generals said last week that the number of Iraqi battalions able to fight last week without help from American forces had shrunk to one, from three in July."