(UK) Troops to Quit Iraq 'Within Two Years'

[leftchick]

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4412966

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said today that he hoped British troops could be withdrawn from Iraq within the next two years.

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“I hope it will be next year or some time the year after,” he said on ITV1’s Jonathan Dimbleby programme.

“We are already rebuilding the Iraqi security forces. They have taken over security in many regions of the country.

“When the Iraqi government says to us ‘We want you to go’, we will go and I think it will be some time in the next two years.”

[rodeodance]

1. I have seen similar posts like this every other day for the last two

or three weeks on DU. The UK has an a election coming up. Promises promises promises.

[norml]

2. "hope" is not "will"

His statement has so many qualifiers,that it is worthless wishful thinking at best, a lie at worst.

[Roland99]

3. It's selling the "Freedom is on the March" meme

Nothing more than posturing to make things in Iraq look like they're going well enough that discussion of troop withdrawals can be considered.

[BillZBubb]

4. The old Bullshit Meter just redlined!

What a bunch of pre-election drivel. "I hope", wow, that's firm!

[leQ]

5. why pull them out when they're doing sooooo much good? (eom)

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