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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 01:24 AM
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Blair says remaining UK troops should be out of Iraq in 10 to 16 months
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1925737,00.html

Tony Blair yesterday shifted ground on the continuing presence of British troops in Iraq by saying it was government policy to leave the country within 10 to 16 months - so long as the security situation allowed.

The prime minister also agreed with the chief of the general staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt, that the presence of British forces could become a provocation, but disagreed with Gen Dannatt by insisting it was still the government's aim to secure a liberal democracy in Iraq.

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VC2 Donating Member (75 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 01:31 AM
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1. so much for
"fighting to the last american."
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 06:19 AM
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2. "so long as the security situation allowed"
which still basically means "we'll leave when we feel like it".
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 06:34 AM
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3. My question is when he will be
in a cell in The Hague?
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