米大統領、欧州とアジアの兵力削減を発表へ
7万から10万の兵力を欧州、アジアから引き揚げると月曜日にブッシュが発表する予定。3分の2は欧州（大部分はドイツ）から。韓国からも。
別件を検索中にはいってきたニュース。ワシントンポストがホワイトハウス筋の情報として。
U.S. to Cut Forces in Europe, Asia
By Mike Allen and Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, August 14, 2004; Page A01President Bush will announce Monday that he plans to pull 70,000 to 100,000 troops out of Europe and Asia in the first major reconfiguration of overseas military deployments by the United States since the Cold War ended, White House officials said yesterday.
Bush, who will reveal his plan in a speech to the annual convention of the 2.6 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars in Cincinnati, plans to say that the change is necessary to adapt the nation's military to the demands of the global war on terrorism and to take advantage of new technologies, said a senior aide involved in developing the plan.
Two-thirds of the reduction will come from Europe, most of them Army soldiers in Germany, and most of the troops will be reassigned to bases in the United States, the aide said. Officials said exact details of the moves have not been finalized, but some of the troops from Germany and South Korea will be moved to expansion countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Eastern Europe.
これをソースとするAFPの記事では、
韓国と日本に駐留する兵員もこの再配備の対象になる旨、この新聞[ワシントンポスト]の同ソースは述べ、ただし移動の具体的な人員はまだ最終的に確定してないとする。
Des troupes actuellement déployées en Corée du Sud et au Japon devraient être aussi affectées par cette restructuration, ont précisé les mêmes sources au journal en affirmant que les chiffres exacts de ces mouvements n'avaient pas encore été définitivement arrêtés.
としているが、ワシントンポストの記事に、日本からの撤退に明確に触れる部分は見つからない。ただし次の記述はある。
The plan is the latest iteration of a discussion that has been going on for several years between the Pentagon and the White House about reconfiguring troops abroad now that the Soviet Union is extinct and the United States is the world's lone superpower. Administration officials have talked for more than two years about their intention to move 60,000 troops out of Europe, mostly from Germany, and 30,000 from East Asia, mostly from Japan and South Korea.
