Obama Favoring Mid-2010 Pullout in Iraq, Aides Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Obama plans to leave behind a “residual force” of tens of thousands of troops to continue training Iraqi security forces
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Ahmad Al-Shagra on 25 Feb 09So basically, its a long term colonization.
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It was not clear on Tuesday exactly how many of the 140,000 troops would remain in Iraq after August 2010 or whether any of the 14 combat brigades now there would stay under a new mission.
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Mr. Obama plans to leave behind a "residual force" of tens of thousands of troops to continue training Iraqi security forces, hunt down foreign terrorist cells and guard American institutions