Powell: Troops in Iraq must be Reduced

""[Whoever] becomes president on Jan. 1, 2009...will face a military force that cannot continue to sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20 (thousand) odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.""

- Colin Powell
   10 April 2008 Source

"Powell: Troops in Iraq Must Be Reduced," Associated Press, 10 April 2008. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hLBkzdVupoA9_e7D2-5tjiN8xzTAD8VV8UFO0