Yet the size of the troop deployment clearly suggested that the President was willing to back up his call for public order with force.
But the strategy of setting conditions for possible troop deployment in Iraq could backfire.
You talk of troop deployments, imperfect plans and pulling out too early.
Instead, the civilian authorities must demand a troop deployment ahead of time.
To sort out this tangled mess eventually required a huge troop deployment.
He said that a separate motion on troop deployment could be considered later.
He called for reducing troop deployments in Europe and applying military spending to civil programs.
United States troop deployments have been increased recently to 20,000, in part to help with security ahead of the voting.
But that is just one set of statistics describing troop deployments.
However, these doubts were not reflected in his troop deployments.