Pentagon Is Open to Moving More Marines to Afghanistan

The Marine Corps may begin shifting its major combat forces out of Iraq to focus on Afghanistan in 2009 if greater security in Iraq allows a reduction of Marines there, top Pentagon officials said yesterday.
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Ann Scott Tyson

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