Posted on 06/19/2006 9:47:08 PM PDT by HAL9000
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced a plan on Tuesday to withdraw Japanese ground troops from the southern Iraq city of Samawah, ending their aid and reconstruction mission that started with the dispatch order issued in January 2004.At a meeting of executives of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party before making the announcement, Koizumi said of the Iraq mission, ''A chapter has been finished. I will announce the withdrawal today.''
Koizumi held a news conference on the withdrawal of the Ground Self-Defense Force troops after meeting with leader of the LDP's ruling coalition partner, New Komeito, as well as leaders of opposition parties.
The government is considering starting the pullout later this month for completion by the end of July, government officials indicated.
''I am glad that the mission can be completed without one bullet being fired and not one person injured,'' Koizumi was quoted by Komeito leader Takenori Kanzaki as saying.
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His next big project: The Invasion of Graceland, June 30th.
Thanks to Koizumi and the nation of Japan for assisting in the Coalition of the Willing! Well done.
You mean, Glacerand?
The Japanese government has been under pressure from the Japanese populace to not be in iraq. While they were there, the Japanese at least provided logistical support.
Now its time for GW Bush to announce the same plans for US troops.
P.S. Are you a figurative troll?
bump for publicity.
Perhaps you could ask the US Ambassador to Iraq if he is a "troll" or "disruptor"; the cable he sent Secretary of State Rice is reprinted in today's London Independent. Amb. Khalizad, one of the neoconservatives who pushed for this war, is very gloomy about both current conditions and prospects for improvement.
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