Defense eyeing more deployments to Iraq - Yahoo! News

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Defense eyeing more deployments to Iraq - Yahoo! News:

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is developing plans to send four more battalions to Iraq early next year, partly to boost security in Baghdad, defense officials said Wednesday. Meanwhile, a commission studying Iraq policy said it would make its report next week.

The extra combat engineer battalions of reserves, likely to be sent to Baghdad, would total about 3,500 troops, officials said. They said the units, coming from around the United States, have already done tours in Iraq but there has been no final decision on which will go.

The moves come as violence continues to rise in Baghdad, and President Bush is under growing pressure to craft an exit strategy that would withdraw a substantial number of U.S. troops from Iraq while shifting more responsibility to the Iraqi government. The Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan commission looking into Iraq war policy, said it will release its report to the president, Congress and the public on Dec. 6.