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ITALY SETS PULLOUT DATE (IRAQ)
Sky News ^
| March 15, 2005
| Staff
Posted on 03/15/2005 10:52:43 AM PST by MadIvan
Italy will start withdrawing its troops from Iraq in September, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: allyitaly; exitstrategy; iraq; italy; pullout; troops
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Damn.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
03/15/2005 10:52:45 AM PST
by
MadIvan
To: LadyofShalott; Tolik; mtngrl@vrwc; pax_et_bonum; Alkhin; agrace; EggsAckley; dinasour; ...
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posted on
03/15/2005 10:53:05 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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Italy will start withdrawing its troops from Iraq in September, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said.
"We will begin to reduce our contingent even before the end of the year, starting in September, in agreement with our allies," he said in an interview on state television.
Italy has 3,000 troops in Iraq, the fourth largest foreign contingent after the United States, Britain and South Korea.
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posted on
03/15/2005 10:53:52 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
To: MadIvan
Was this part of the hostage deal?
heh
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posted on
03/15/2005 10:54:25 AM PST
by
sunnysky
To: MadIvan
Will they pay the terrorists a million for each person they pull?
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posted on
03/15/2005 10:54:36 AM PST
by
smith288
(The GOP, Ditech of politics... "lost another one to GOP" - Howard dean)
To: MadIvan
now we know what the commie chick was up to.
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posted on
03/15/2005 10:55:07 AM PST
by
ken21
( today's luxury development. tomorrow's slum.)
To: MadIvan
As things progress in Iraq, this is a natural outcome. Thanks to Italy for their support.
To: MadIvan
Commies stab us in the back again!
To: smith288
Will they pay the terrorists a million for each person they pull? that would be fine in lira, but its a lot of euros
To: MadIvan
If we still have troops in Kosovo, we should pullout. Let the EU-ro-peons deal with it.
I'm fed up with these wussies dumping everything in our lap.
To: Gucho; blackie; TexKat
Information ping Thank you
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posted on
03/15/2005 10:58:50 AM PST
by
anonymoussierra
(Lux Mea Christus!!!"Totus tuus" Quo Vadis Domine?Thank you)
To: MadIvan
Italy goes wobbly....I'm shocked! Wonder if the pullout includes the light carrier group.
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posted on
03/15/2005 11:00:31 AM PST
by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
To: MadIvan
But according to Kerry, we were there all by ourselves.
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posted on
03/15/2005 11:03:01 AM PST
by
irishtenor
(Hetero-normative... and proud of it!)
To: irishtenor
I would not be too terribly surprised if US force levels are dropping by September. We have been training Iraqis and I would hope that they could provide more and more of their own security as time goes by.
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posted on
03/15/2005 11:06:27 AM PST
by
Ingtar
(Understanding is a three-edged sword : your side, my side, and the truth in between ." -- Kosh)
To: Indy Pendance
As things progress in Iraq, this is a natural outcome. Thanks to Italy for their support. That's how I want to view it as well. Thanks Italy.
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posted on
03/15/2005 11:06:56 AM PST
by
processing please hold
(Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
To: MadIvan
Berlusconi has made Italy a staunch ally in Iraq. There is no reason to think that there is anything to be read into a withdrawal six months from now. If the announcement helps him politically then all the better. In the meantime we should still pass up the Bordeaux for the Supertuscans (they're just as good if not better anyway).
To: pbrown
Right, they don't have the resources we do.
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posted on
03/15/2005 11:08:56 AM PST
by
stuartcr
To: MadIvan
Italy will start withdrawing its troops from Iraq in September, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said. How can this be?
And ALL this time I thought we were "going it alone"!
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posted on
03/15/2005 11:12:05 AM PST
by
EGPWS
To: anonymoussierra
Information ping
Bump - Thank you.
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posted on
03/15/2005 11:12:06 AM PST
by
Gucho
To: MadIvan
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"I am so ashamed of my countrymen... please BigCheese, do not be upset with me..." |
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posted on
03/15/2005 11:15:22 AM PST
by
bigcheese
("Dont worry, Monica...")
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