, All US military units sent to Iraq as part of a troop increase ordered by President George W. Bush will be fully trained and equipped, commanders promised on Feb. 27, after Democratic contentions that the Pentagon could not afford to do so.
Rep. John Murtha, a leading Democratic opponent of the war, has proposed forcing the Pentagon to certify that all the extra troops meet conditions including being fully trained and having at least a year at home between combat deployments.
Murtha has suggested the measure would effectively block the planned increase of some 20,000 troops as the military, stretched by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, would be unable to meet the conditions.
But commanders said troops being deployed as part of Bush
