Timeline of The Iraq War Troop Surge of 2007 - March, 2007

March, 2007

• March 2, 2007: The Pentagon states that 7,000 more troops will be sent to Iraq. “President Bush’s planned escalation of U.S. forces in Iraq will require as many as 28,500 troops, Pentagon officials told a Senate committee Thursday.”

• March 20, 2007: U.S. Troop strength is 152,000

• March 27, 2007: McCain tells CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “General Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed humvee. I think you oughta catch up. You are giving the old line of three months ago. I understand it. We certainly don’t get it through the filter of some of the media.” He later acknowledges, “There is no unarmored humvees. Obviously, that’s the case.”