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To: TobagoJack who wrote (927)9/27/2005 11:55:21 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 217662
 
"goal of the US administration to turn Iraq into a beacon of democracy in the Middle East had long ago been shelved."

UK works on 'exit ticket'

Ewen MacAskill | London

27 September 2005 10:59

A British soldier makes his way out of a burning Warrior as an Iraqi youngster scrambles to leave the area in Basra, Iraq, on Monday. (Photograph: AP)
Diplomats in the British Foreign Office are working frantically in private on what they refer to as the “exit ticket" from Iraq.

In contrast to the official line that British forces will remain until the job is done, the Foreign Office wants to engineer a set of circumstances in which both Britain and the United States can begin to reduce troops next year. But the speed with which unrest and violence is growing is making this harder.

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