The United States may not need the number of troops it has in Iraq “all that much longer,” U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice said amid reports the Pentagon may pull back three combat brigades. With political pressure building on U.S. President George W. Bush to shift course in Iraq, U.S. officials are trying to reassure Americans that sufficient progress is being made in training Iraqi forces to possibly permit some U.S. troops to leave. Full Story