BBC: Blair to announce troop pullout from Iraq »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 year, 6 months ago445 Comments Report this Story
Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday will announce a new timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, the BBC reported. Blair will also say during his weekly appearance at the House of Commons that a total of about 3,000 British soldiers will have left southern Iraq by the end of 2007.
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TomBiro1 year, 6 months ago
Just caught this on the television and I'm frankly not surprised. Wonder if it'll have any sort of domino effect with other, smaller players.
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earthlingerer1 year, 6 months ago
No domino effect....the writing is on the wall. In the next few weeks you'll see a lot of others ditching before the stuff from your bum hits the fan over Iran... Emperor Bush-ligula is all alone in his mess-stake in progress there.
There'll be just one target, one nation to blame and point at in this criminal escapade. Besides Israel.
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almos_vagyok1 year, 6 months ago
Yes, and let us not forget that the JEWS caused the
plague in Europe. It is essential to bring into every discussion on every topic how Israel is to be blamed
for all the bad things in the world. Indeed they
run the whole Christian fundumentalist thing in
the USA (and probably all terrorist organizations
including Hamas and Hezbollah, however you spell them).
I am glad that this was pointed out to me.
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deathray1 year, 6 months ago
I'm not sure how the association with Israel comes up, except that Arab states make it a precondition to negotiations that policy changes inherently damaging to Israel are required before sitting at the negotiating table.
How is it that the Israelis masterminded this war in Iraq? Don't the Israelis have their hands full closer to home?
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m-simon1 year, 6 months ago
1,000 troops by the end of the year the rest in bases in Iraq.
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Blackace1 year, 6 months ago
When this is all said and done the U.S. will be the only players there? I thought it funny that shortly after this story came out, our talking heads were saying he was doing this because we are winning and they were no longer needed.
Giving the state of affairs in the UK I can't see Tony pulling out if the upside was positive. He needs some good news from Iraq to hold on to his office. These guys need to stop with the lies; I don't know who they think they are convincing at this point that we are winning anything.
It's time the right wing media start going after this organization.
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 6 months ago
Just a month ago Blair was speaking to Parliment, saying how it would be wrong for Britain to remove any troops by the end of this year. Looks like he's had a big change of heart. Too late for his political career, so what gives? Really a change of heart, or just a flipflopper like so many politicians?
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NoWayMan1 year, 4 months ago
domino effect? probably not since these countries have already pulled out of iraq (and bush's "coalition"):
Nicaragua
Spain
Dominican Republic
Honduras
Philippines
Thailand
New Zealand
Tonga
Portugal
The Netherlands
Hungary
Singapore
Norway
Ukraine
Japan
Italy
Slovakia
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 6 months ago
Our enenmies are bold enough on their own. This won't affect them one way or the other.
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mbkijb1 year, 6 months ago
The mission was never accomplished. He just wised up. Hopefully Bush will wise up as well. Put the troops in Afghanistan and get them out of harm's way in Iraq. Mission there accomplished. Let them now figure it out for themselves with some gentle guidance.
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TechnologyExpert1 year, 6 months ago
Wised up or just trying to go out on a positive note. Hard to say. At least he's falling in line with the majority of British lawmakers who wanted out of Iraq.
Unlike, of course, someone ignoring the will of the American people, pretty solidly expressed in the election results last year, to get out.
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 6 months ago
Hmm...it appears M. simon is no better than the person we removed from Iraq...very sad...
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random17341 year, 6 months ago
The problem with your analogy is that leaves our troops over there forever. Unfortunatly we are stuck with the captain for another 23 months. Hopefully we will see some troops come home next year but I would not count on it.
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jeffery11 year, 6 months ago
Nothing like showing support through lying us into invading in the forst place. Bush treated our friends and family in the military like pawns from the beginning to further his aspirations to show his pop that he could secure the region's oil when his pop didn't. What a show of support it was when the Commander in Chief sent in our familiy and friends in the military into Iraq without the right equipment. What a show of support it is to continue to cut vet programs so when they get home they are left on their own, to fend for themselves.
Yep, the Republicans and Bush really support our familiy and friends in the military.
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MonkeyBiz1 year, 6 months ago
I have to disagree sage. I didn't think it was clever at all. I thought it was clumsy, tacky, and, like RickytheGriff says, sleazy.
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mbkijb1 year, 6 months ago
I think Sage is referring to the government who are making this prolonged mess and killing our kids.
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Blackace1 year, 6 months ago
They are playing the shifting game. We get tired of the way things are being done; they fire the guy running the show hire some new people and start the madness all over again. This is the sign of a crazy person, hoping to get a different result.
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Matteu001 year, 6 months ago
Sounds from the Oval office:
"Barney. Here boy, come here Barney. Barney? Barney?!
Anybody seen Barney?
Laura?"
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Justice4All1 year, 6 months ago
Blair is as guilty as Bush on this. When things started and appeared to be going well the press in the UK took the position that the UK was leading things. When things turned out like the French predicted the British position was that they were coerced into this by the US. They could be heros, but never at fault. I'm glad to see Blair going down over this. He has no one to blame but himself.
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blinkers1 year, 6 months ago
Good point. This is where the NeoCons and their PNAC policy guff confuse "strength" with "power". While the US government has unparalleled strength via a multi-trillion dollar military, its power,i.e.,its ability to get other nations/governments to do exactly what it wants them to do, is actually waning.
The president seems genetically impervious to the concept of "policy failure".
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Neophile1 year, 6 months ago
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Justice4All1 year, 6 months ago
I think the Australians sent a guy with a boomerang. And didn't the Japanese send and accountant or a chef?
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JustCallMeV1 year, 6 months ago
Ah yes, I remember now...the ever loving "Coalition of the Willing". Now, where are those film footages again?
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NelsonR1 year, 6 months ago
Is this surprising? Georgie will be the last individual on this planet to see that HIS war was wrong. I am no pacifist and strongly aver a rightful war wihin Afghanistan. Our current leaders are devoid of all reason and common sense. Our elected representatives are devoid of understanding that their mission in life is to represent its electorate.
Georgie is an abomination on Americas values. He wants to control the world and dominate all nations into the idiom he prescribes. Two more years of this stuttering, Vietnam draft dodging elitist. Rumsfeld is one down, now Bush and Cheney to go. McCain is attempting to grasp the 4th position and Lieberman is so hawkish and an advocate for our continued involvement in the middle east, he is a representative for Israel, not America. SO I will not even equate him to a fifth place, he's just obscene.
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