US ready to step into Basra as British pull out

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The US military is ready to intervene in southern Iraq to quell any unrest as British forces prepare to pull out from their last base in the oil port of Basra, the Pentagon says.

Press reports in London suggest that the British departure and handover of security control to Iraqi forces may be imminent, although the official line is that it will take place before the end of the year.

US forces will not allow any security advances in southern Iraq to be abandoned, Brigadier General Richard Sherlock, deputy director for operational planning at the Department of Defence, told reporters.

As requirements on the ground dictate, "they will reposition forces with the battlefield geography in mind so that they don't give up gains that they've made in different areas, including in Basra and the south," he said.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/31/2020128.htm

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1. When are they going to stop referring to the "US"

and just call it cheneyville? Don't they realize there was a coup?

there ain't no fricking "we" or "they" running this - the pentagon wants out, the people want out, but darth keeps blasting away

Oh how I wish he would get challenged by someone - someone who just looks him in the eye and says "go fuck yourself"

I think he'd go absolutely postal. Either have a heart attack from apoplexy, or else do something REALLY overt like throttle the guy.

Maybe next time he's at the Senate, Leahy could do that...

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2. We can deploy the 17th Flat Daddy Infantry Division

Oh, wait, they're fully engaged defending the home front:

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3. Bullshit. nt