Welcome to the quagmire.
<font color=brown>Currently, there are 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. The plan to cut that number is well advanced and has been described in broad outline to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld but has not yet been approved by him, the Post said, in its Sunday edition.
It would begin to draw down forces next spring, cutting the number of troops to fewer than 100,000 by next summer and then to 50,000 by mid-2005, officers involved in the planning said.
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albawaba.com
Once troops begin to leave, it will quickly turn into a rout as the Iraqi's continue to learn strategies which nullify the technological superiority of the American troops.
<font color=green>Yesterday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan conceded for the first time that Ankara might abandon plans to send troops to its southeastern neighbour if they are not welcome.</font>
Once again, the plan that Junior has been handed by Rumsfeld is all faith based, not fact based.
heraldsun.news.com.au
<font color=green>THE post-war US combat toll in Iraq rose to at least 103 today, while US President George W Bush said a new audiotape purportedly by Osama bin Laden threatening Washington over its occupation of Baghdad meant that "the war on terror goes on."</font>
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