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Iraq PM: U.S. agrees to withdraw troops by 2011
in.reuters.com — "There is an agreement actually reached, reached between the two parties on a fixed date, which is the end of 2011, to end any foreign presence on Iraqi soil," "An open time limit is not acceptable in any security deal that governs the presence of the international forces," Maliki said.
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- acmaurer, on 08/26/2008, -1/+8Yet another promise. I'll believe it when it happens.
- KJeffV, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5Or, as we say in the Guard, "When you arrive at your new duty station and check in, THAT's when you have valid PCS orders."
- barktwiggs, on 08/26/2008, -0/+7So, in other words: the surge worked.
- nontoxyc, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1The Iraqis never even noticed the last two words of the agreement, and wouldn't have been able to translate them if they had: "Oh, psych!"
- n0gnuz, on 08/27/2008, -0/+2So, they're that confident that the US will have a puppet government in place by 2011? That's a pretty lofty goal, considering how well the Iraqi public has accepted the current puppet government (whose strings are pulled from Tel Aviv and Washington).
- Kent4jmj, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1ONce the greatest depression the world has ever seen hits it really won't matter will it?
- sunjay92, on 08/27/2008, -0/+0i doubt it.. they've been saying this for years, i agree with acmaurer.
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