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50,000 "residual" troops left in Iraq: "anti- terrorism operations"
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Posted on 02/27/2009 6:13:34 AM PST by DBCJR

Yesterday Obama announced a new time frame for troop removal with a big surprise. 50,000 troops will remain to do, among other things, "anti- terrorism operations":

"President Barack Obama will announce today that most U.S. combat troops will be out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, though thousands will remain behind to support Iraqi forces, two administration officials said.

Obama plans to leave 35,000 to 50,000 military personnel in Iraq through 2011 to perform duties such as training, equipping and supporting the Iraqi military and protecting civilian operations. Some of the remaining troops would conduct anti- terrorism operations, the officials said. By Dec. 31, 2011, all U.S. troops would be out of Iraq under the plan, they said." Bloomberg 2/27/09

How are "anti- terrorism operations" different from what the "combat troops" are doing?


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To: dead

50,000 troops will remain
Quagmire.
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Nyet!


21 posted on 02/27/2009 1:15:10 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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To: calex59

This won’t help if he doesn’t give them the equipment they need to do the job. Cutting 25 percent from the military budget will pretty much curtail any operations.
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Shades of Clinton, except he did worse than that.


22 posted on 02/27/2009 1:16:58 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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To: Beckwith

“anti- terrorism operations” means a much smaller subset of crack troops than the 50,000


23 posted on 02/27/2009 1:20:11 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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