We can't sustain the deployment we have. If something happens in Korea, if something happens in Iran, we -- we couldn't deploy and stay over there for any length of time, because we don't have the troops.
Murtha argues that the U.S. military deployment in Iraq is unsustainable due to troop shortages.
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