General CASEY: My sense is, we'll start seeing an impact in 60 days or so, I think.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: General Casey will make the decisions as to how many troops we have there.
And General Casey, of course, will be making those assessments as he told us today via the teleconference.
And General Casey said maybe the U.S. needs more troops in Baghdad.
And as General Casey pointed out, they did a, you know, arguably, a good job in helping to make sure the country stayed united.
As a result, General Casey requested additional forces to enable the coalition to accomplish these tasks and those forces began to flow in January.
But this afternoon, he did confirm that he has heard General Casey's recommendations about a possible drawdown to as few as 100, 000 troops or so by the end of the year.
But what's interesting about this is that the president has all along said that when it comes to the idea of troop numbers, he's going to be taking his cues from the commanders on the ground, particularly General Casey.
And one more question before we let you both go, and that is that in an interview today with Reuters, Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister of Iraq, said he could get violence under control in six months, which is half the time that General Casey was talking about the other day, provided Washington gave him more weaponry and more say over his own forces.
And it was a report that General Casey, who is with us today, and our Ambassador Zal Khalilzad, who is with us today, as well as the Prime Minister's team, delivered to both of us about how to accelerate responsibility to the Iraqi government so this person elected by the people can take the fight to those who want to destroy a young democracy.
General George Casey, the Army's top officer, met with Congress a couple of weeks back.
Obviously there have been statements from the ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, and from the top military commander, General George Casey.
He acknowledged that the top U.S. commander, General George Casey, may not be scaling down U.S. troops anytime soon.
And on Friday, General George Casey, he's the U.S. commander there, said that the crisis he thinks has passed.
General George Casey issued the order after U.S. Marines were accused of killing unarmed civilians and then covering up their actions.
General George Casey also sat before a Senate panel yesterday at his confirmation hearings to become the Army's next chief of staff.
General GEORGE CASEY (U.S. Army): I believe that the job in Baghdad, as it's designed now, can be done with less that that.
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The Pentagon says that General George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is going to make some sort of recommendation this spring on the issue of troops.
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The senior American military commander in Iraq, General George Casey, said this week that he believes the United States could begin to draw down US forces by the spring of 2006 if progress continues.
General GEORGE CASEY (Commander of US Forces, Iraq): If the political process continues to go positively, and if the development of the security forces continues to go as it is going, I do believe we'll still be able to take some fairly substantial reductions in the spring and summer of next year.
But to lure a Casey's General Store three years ago, Potomac's mayor convinced the town to lift the alcohol ban.
Casey considers it important for investors to have general, broad-based knowledge rather than a sole focus on, say, just economics.
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