02-23-2007, 02:21 PM
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politi...icle2293479.ece
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Iraq: More nations plan pull-out</b>
By Anne Penketh
Published: 22 February 2007
Denmark announced that it would withdraw its ground troops serving under British command in Basra, as other countries review their participation in the coalition force.
Lithuania, which has 53 soldiers in Iraq serving alongside the Danish battalion, also said it was considering a pull-out.
The Romanian Defence Minister said that Bucharest would take a decision on the presence of its 600 soldiers in Iraq, mostly serving under British command, in the next few days. But President Traian Basescu, who is also under pressure to announce a withdrawal timetable, warned that a hasty pull-out of the international coalition forces "would cause chaos and the division of Iraq".
Poland has already announced that it will bring home its 900 troops by the end of the year, and Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Japan and New Zealand have already withdrawn their troops.
South Korea, which has a contingent of 2,300 troops in the northern city of Arbil, intends to withdraw half by April, and its parliament is calling for a complete pull-out by the end of the year.
Australia said yesterday that it would keep 1,400 soldiers in and around Iraq, while the Bulgarian parliament voted to keep its 155 troops beyond the expiry of their current mandate next month.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Here in US media, they are showing lousy work by Brits regarding controlling Basra. They had shown Basra local beating Brits forces. Some are calling it "The Blair Ditch Project".<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->So Bush & Blair's love affair finally at an end? No more singing the 'Endless Love' duet together (youtube)? No more picking out sweaters for one another? What a sad end to their windswept romance. Oh well. Who knows how the next US president and next British PM will chummy up. And, more importantly, what their love theme will be <!--emo&
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Iraq: More nations plan pull-out</b>
By Anne Penketh
Published: 22 February 2007
Denmark announced that it would withdraw its ground troops serving under British command in Basra, as other countries review their participation in the coalition force.
Lithuania, which has 53 soldiers in Iraq serving alongside the Danish battalion, also said it was considering a pull-out.
The Romanian Defence Minister said that Bucharest would take a decision on the presence of its 600 soldiers in Iraq, mostly serving under British command, in the next few days. But President Traian Basescu, who is also under pressure to announce a withdrawal timetable, warned that a hasty pull-out of the international coalition forces "would cause chaos and the division of Iraq".
Poland has already announced that it will bring home its 900 troops by the end of the year, and Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Japan and New Zealand have already withdrawn their troops.
South Korea, which has a contingent of 2,300 troops in the northern city of Arbil, intends to withdraw half by April, and its parliament is calling for a complete pull-out by the end of the year.
Australia said yesterday that it would keep 1,400 soldiers in and around Iraq, while the Bulgarian parliament voted to keep its 155 troops beyond the expiry of their current mandate next month.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Here in US media, they are showing lousy work by Brits regarding controlling Basra. They had shown Basra local beating Brits forces. Some are calling it "The Blair Ditch Project".<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->So Bush & Blair's love affair finally at an end? No more singing the 'Endless Love' duet together (youtube)? No more picking out sweaters for one another? What a sad end to their windswept romance. Oh well. Who knows how the next US president and next British PM will chummy up. And, more importantly, what their love theme will be <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->