American Entropy: US pulling out of Iraq

10 July 2005

US pulling out of Iraq

I don't know if this is true, I can't imagine it be relevant to what the situation is now, but in a leaked memo out from the UK says we are leaving Iraq, quickly. By early 2006 we, the United states, will have 50% less troops in Iraq. The British are pulling back as well.

A leaked document from Britain's Defence Ministry says the British and U.S. governments are planning to reduce their troop levels in Iraq by more than half by mid-2006, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported.

The memo, reportedly written by Defence Minister John Reid, said Britain would reduce its troop numbers to 3,000 from 8,500 by the middle of next year.

"We have a commitment to hand over to Iraqi control in Al Muthanna and Maysan provinces (two of the four provinces under British control in southern Iraq) in October 2005 and in the other two, Dhi Qar and Basra, in April 2006," the memo was reported to have said.

The memo said Washington planned to cut its forces to 66,000 from about 140,000 by early 2006.

"Emerging U.S. plans assume 14 out of 18 provinces could be handed over to Iraqi control by early 2006," the memo said.

So we expect to hand over the country in a year? I find that hard to believe with the current progress in drafting a constitution and two large portions of Iraq moving toward independence. What will happen now is a Kurdish controlled north, a Shiite south, and a Sunni middle; all left to, at the rate things are going, fight it out.

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