European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              June 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition pages army mulls extending combat Tours for 2008 by Anne Flaherty the associated press Washington the army is considering whether it will have to extend the combat Tours of troops in Iraq if president Bush opts to maintain the recent buildup of forces through Spring acting army Secretary Pete Geren testified tuesday that the service is reviewing other of including relying More heavily on army reservists or Navy and air Force so As not to put More pressure on a stretched Active duty most soldiers spend 15 months in combat with a guaranteed 12 months a rotation plan that has infuriated democrats be cause it exceeds the services goal of giving troops equal time Home As in combat in coming the Senate will vote on a proposal by Jim that would restrict deploy David Iraq War suggested sunday that conditions on the ground might not be stable enough by september to justify a drop in Force and he predicted stabilizing Iraq could take a earlier this Bush ordered the deployment of some additional troops As part of a Mas Sive Security push around Baghdad and the Western Anbar there Are about troops in when asked by Senate armed services committee chairman Carl whether maintaining the Force buildup would affect soldiers 15month combat Geren said he was unsure and cited numerous options including a different utilization of the guard and Reserve and relying on the other services for were committed to filling the requirements that the combatant commander Geren we have been Able to do so up until and we will continue to do the army assessment comes As democrats say they Are Al ready dissatisfied with the exist ing who was talking for the Well being and the health of the sol Diers when this requirement was put Down asked refer ring to the 15month combat after four years of the strategy in Iraq cannot justify doing this to the soldiers in the army and the families Back he Geren also said it would certainly be valuable if other depart ments helped More in rebuilding Joseph Lieberman said he was surprised during a recent trip to Iraq to see How Many sol Diers were tasked with a i wish every american could see what the army and oth ers Are doing to rebuild the gov the health care the education to secure the said Lieber but some of in the Best of All should frankly be done by people from other departments of our govern japanese renew air Force transport Mission for 2 years by Carl Freire the associated press Tokyo japanese lawmakers on wednesday approved a two year Extension of the coun try air Force transport Mission in despite criticism of to Kos involvement in the increasingly unpopular the legislation cleared the upper House with support from members of prime minister Shin to abes ending Liberal democratic party and its coalition the new Komei upper House official Yuji Masaki the lower House also dominated by the ruling proved the legislation last the government has argued that the Mission is needed to help stabilize Iraq and prevent the spread of after the Extension was a Abe called escalating Vio Lence in Iraq very regrettable but said Japan and the rest of the International Community must not turn their Japan backed the Iraq invasion and provided troops for a 20042006 humanitarian Mission in Southern last year it expanded its Kun wait based operations to Airlift and coalition personnel and supplies into the approval could give a boost to Abe As he tries to raise japans military profile peaceful Sunset the Sun sets behind Wadi or the Valley off cemetery in Valley off peace is the largest islamic cemetery and one of the largest cemeteries in the 24 malnourished children found in iraqi orphanage by Saad Abdulkadir the associated press and iraqi soldiers found 24 severely malnourished children in a Baghdad orphan age some tied to their Beds and too weak to the military said labor and social affairs minister Mahmoud Mohammed Alramhi criticized publicity surrounding the boys and said news reports about the Case were we totally reject the tricks they used to manipulate and distort facts and show the americans As the humanitarian that could not be farther from the he the minister said the institution in which the boys were housed had saved them from a certain death on the streets of All the he were severely handicapped and abandoned by their Fame the which leaked the Story and Pic Tures of the orphanage to lbs news earlier this said they were All boys Between the Ages of 3 and it said Many of the youngsters were found naked in a dark room with no supplies of food and clothing were found in a nearby three who claimed to be and two the orphanage director and a were in the building when the soldiers arrived june according to the military Alramhi issued his comments to the Independent Shar Qiya television which is often critical of the it showed still pictures of the emaciated children lying on the some of them tied to the Panaras daily Alzayat also published a picture of the children in its wednesday the military said medics were called in to treat the children and iraqi soldiers notified local Council who came to help the ten additional workers have been hired to work with the children who were transferred to another were very grateful that this Story unfolded the Way that it that none of these 24 boys lost their Vincent multinational i vision Baghdad Deputy commanding this is a Story of courageous action and compassion overcoming deplorable neg i Brooks iraqi children Are thought to have suffered most in the violence that has torn Iraq for More than four the childrens fund said last month that Iraq children Are caught in a rapidly worsening tragedy and that half the estimated 4 million iraqis who have fled their Homes since the War began in 2003 was violence is creating widows and orphans on a daily Many of whom Are left to struggle for it Iraq already casual ties 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