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White House Plays Down Troop Withdrawal
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus May 23, 2006 12:19pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON - The White House on Tuesday played down prospects of major troop withdrawals from Iraq in the near future. "We're not going to sort of look at our watches and say, oop, time to go," presidential spokesman Tony Snow said.
The establishment of a unity government in Baghdad has stirred talk of troops reductions by the United States and Britain, the two major players in terms of soldiers in Iraq.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush's chief partner in Iraq, visited Iraq on Monday and agreed with Iraq's new leadership that Iraqi forces would start assuming full responsibility for some provinces and cities next month, beginning a process leading to the eventual withdrawal of all coalition forces.
British media quoted an unidentified senior British official traveling with Blair as saying coalition forces should be out within four years. Blair and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declined to set a timetable for that withdrawal.
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