British withdrawal from Iraq to start within months - Straw (?)

[kpete]

British withdrawal from Iraq to start within months - Straw
(AFP)
Updated: 2006-01-07 21:15


Visiting Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said it was hoped Britain's 8,000 troops would start to withdraw from Iraq in a matter of months.

"In practice, what we hope to see is a gradual phased draw-down of British troops starting, not with Basra, but with one or two of the other provinces in our area," Straw told AFP.

The phased withdrawal will start "as and when the Iraqis are satisfied that their own forces can cope completely with the responsibility," he added following talks with Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari and President Jalal Talabani.


"It's going to be a matter of months," he added Saturday.

British forces control four of Iraq's southern provinces -- Basra, Nasiriyah, Samawah and Amara.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-01/07/content_510272.htm

[PerceptionManagement]

1. Will this put pressure on the US administration to do likewise?

[kpete]

2. Pressure, when has pressure ever worked

sorry, frustration sets in about this time everyday...

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Draw down from build up.

It is a con game. Troop strength was beefed up from its usual 135,000 to around 160,000 or so, not counting the number of mercenary troops, which is a secret. So the fucking liars will, conditions permitting, make a show of withdrawing say 20,000 or so troops, returning the force level to 135-140,000. Wanna guess if they beef up the mercenary level at the same time?

Just keep in mind that their plans do NOT stop at Iraq, they include Syria and Iran, and that they think that everything is going just fine. Their only real concern right now is the '06 congressional elections, not the military situation in our new occupied territory of Iraq.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. And just because

they reduce the troops on the ground doesn't mean they won't from the skies.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. I've heard that before and

than there was the London bombing that conviently happened just a few days before they were supposed to start pulling out.