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The plan

The Spokesman-Review

Details of President Bush’s new strategy for Iraq:

U.S. troop increase

Bush will commit 17,500 additional U.S. combat troops, the equivalent of five combat brigades, to Baghdad. The first brigade is to arrive Jan. 15; the next on Feb. 15; the remainder in waves every 30 days.

Bush will commit 4,000 more Marines, in two waves, to Anbar, the troubled western province that is a base of the mostly Sunni insurgency and foreign al-Qaida fighters.

The president’s upcoming supplemental budget request will include $5.6 billion to pay for his new commitment of troops.

The plan expands embedding of U.S. advisers into Iraqi security forces.

Economic aid

$414 million to expand the Provincial Reconstruction Teams and set up new Provincial Support Teams.

$400 million in quick-response funds to address civilian problems.

$350 million more for the Commander’s Emergency Response Program, set up in 2003 to give field commanders money to solve local problems that quickly improve the daily lives of Iraqis.