(Reuters) U.S. looks at speeding up Iraq troop increase: Gates

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U.S. looks at speeding up Iraq troop increase: Gates

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is examining whether it can speed up the deployment
of extra troops to Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.

"We are going to see if the timetable for the dispatch of the brigades can be accelerated,"
Gates said at his first Pentagon news conference since taking office last month.

"There are simply some logistical constraints that make it difficult to do a lot but I've asked
people to look at it and see to what extent they could be -- or some portion of it could be --
accelerated," he said.

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