Posted on 04/12/2005 3:36:12 AM PDT by HAL9000
ALARM - Poland will withdraw its troops of Iraq at the end of 2005
WARSAW - Poland will put an end to its mission in Iraq before the end of 2005 with the expiry of the mandate of UNO in this country, declared Tuesday the Minister for Defense Jerzy Szmajdzinski at the end of a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
From what I understand Britain will be pulling out within two years and the US plans to pull out sometime after that.
I think the Iraqi army has around 150,000 men now and will have double that in two years time.
As long as others in the coalition remains until the end of the year, that may be accountable and seen with respect. For countries that remains afterward until US withdraws, America will honor those countries as most trustful countries.
Poland has earned our respect and may we thank Poland for the participation in Iraq.
ALARM??? What do you mean?
This sounds at least at this time a reasonable timetable. How many Polish Troops are now in Iraq?
Iraq has clearly turned a corner, and provided things continue on the path they are on, reductions in foreign troops will be able to begin late this year.
Calm down. The machine translation probably rendered the original language's equivalent of "Bulletin" or "Breaking News" as "Alarm."
I think they still have a few thousand.I believe the UK has between 8,500 to 10,000. We will actually be redeploying these troops to Afghanistan to concentrate on things there (although the MSM has made it sound like a retreat, when the British sector of Iraq is doing very well(The US sector is doing better than before, with decreasing amounts of attacks, according to my friend in Military Intelligence in the British army)).
When all's said and done, we will have to be in Iraq a lot less than we had to be in Germany after WW II.
thx 4 the explanation. BTW I'm calm ;P
True, we will probaly be in Iran or Syria...
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