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US troops to remain active in Iraq after pullback
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The Associated Press
March 16, 2009
American forces will still conduct joint combat operations even after they pull back to bases outside Baghdad and other cities as part of the U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, a spokesman said Sunday.
Brig. Gen. Frederick Rudesheim, a deputy commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, said the redeployment to the periphery will actually help improve security in the capital because U.S. troops can help stop militants from using bases in rural areas to stage urban attacks.
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But he said the troops will travel to the site of the combat operations from bases outside the city instead of outposts that were established throughout various neighborhoods as part of the 2007 U.S. troop surge.
Rudesheim’s comments come a week after Baghdad was hit by two separate suicide bombings that killed more than 60 people, raising new concerns about the readiness of Iraqi forces to take over their own security.
“We will not forsake the security that has been established by the Iraqi security forces and coalition forces,” he said.
The security pact calls for U.S. combat forces to leave the cities by the end of June in the first step of a plan to pull out all American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.
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March 16th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
In my opinion, if our country put as much time, effort, and money into our own country as we do every other country in the world, we would be a still be a prosperous nation. But yet, we worry about everyone except our own people.
Brad Reply:
March 24th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
No, we only worry about the Zionist Agenda.
We either fight wars to get control of the drug triangle trade or we fight to secure Antichrist Israel.
March 16th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Pull all of the troops out now, and worry about our own countrys problems
March 16th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I’ll bet ya in 2010 they’ll push the date even farther into the future.
March 18th, 2009 at 2:00 am
WHO IS THE KING OF TEXAS
I will show myself on April 22 in Waco Texas at the massacre site. I am calling as many Christians of this nation who can find the time to come and see what it is that you don’t even know that you want.
I have the answers for the Christians who have never been defended by their government but have rather been oppressed by their so called government of freedom.
I also have the answers to the current generated economic crisis. This is a peaceful gathering for YHWH our God. But you might want to bring a firearm just in case. After all let us not forget what they did to us in Waco. MAY OUR LORD JESUS BE WITH YOU FRIEND.
I realize it is off topic please forgive me.
March 19th, 2009 at 9:39 am
This kind of says it all (in under 4 minutes):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw5dP5gy2Vs
Click on ‘CBM Fan’ to download it for free…
March 19th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
The L.A.W. as made it clear; Bush should have been arrested in Calcary earlyer this week…
Take a look at .. http://911truth-sherbrooke.org.....ar-crimes/
March 20th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Um well…troops will be in Iraq forever. We still have troops in every country we have ever occupied. Lets see Italy, Germany, France until the government forced us out, Korea, Japan, Kosovo, Okinawa…so there it is, we won’t ever be pulling out. Unless Iraq develops into a global power and tells us to get out.
kevinabt Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 3:27 am
Resistance is not futile. Cuba, Vietnam, and France (just to name a few off the top of my head) have expelled the US military and influence from their countries. Regardless of what you think of the social systems that replaced the US domination.
kevinabt Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Iran too. Very admirable of them, imo.
March 22nd, 2009 at 3:28 am
They plan on killing poor Iranian people, then they probably plan on turning on us next, wonder whats the next 9/11 is it Phoenix Arizona, is it California, or is it something else that might be on road 77?
March 24th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Another lying president!!
March 25th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
On Thursday, March 19th there was a small anti-war protest in NYC to mark the anniversary
of the Shock and Awe campaign. I did not see or speak to a SINGLE, SOLITARY member of the Clergy of ANY Church. There are approx. 16 million souls in the NYC area and NOT a single member of any organized religion turned out for this protest. I read in the free news papers in NYC that members of the Clergy are talking about nude yoga. Has every single religious belief system on this planet been corrupted beyond our comprehension? peace.