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US Troop Level in Iraq Drops Below 50,000
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD (Aug. 24) -- The number of U.S. troops in Iraq has fallen below 50,000 for the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and ahead of the end-of-the-month deadline mandated by President Barack Obama, the American military said in a statement Tuesday. The number is a watershed - American forces will no longer conduct combat operations in the country but are instead to train Iraqi troops and help with counterterrorism operations, if asked for by the Iraqis. "Today, in line with President Obama's direction and as part of the responsible drawdown of forces, U.S. military force ...
In Iraq, the World's Biggest Embassy Isn't Big Enough
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 19) -- As the U.S. war footing in Iraq officially ends, officials say the world's largest embassy -- the U.S. mission in Baghdad -- isn't big enough to support peacetime diplomacy on its own. The State Department plans to open four diplomatic offices outside Baghdad by the end of 2011, when all U.S. military troops are scheduled to leave Iraq. Three of the offices will be in the north, where tensions between Arabs and Kurds over oil and territory are likely to last far longer than the current impasse in forming a new Iraqi government. "Iraq is not a war. Iraq is a country," ...
Why the U.S. Drawdown in Iraq Is Met With Apathy
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyWhen the war in Iraq began in March 2003, the world seemed to explode in protest. Streets were clogged with angry mobs from Paris to New York, Berlin to Boston. Seventy-eight percent of the French disagreed with the war, London saw nearly a million protesters, New York's streets swelled with anti-war walkers. A year later, the 2004 elections were a showdown about a failed policy, knocking down one government (Spain) and roiling Washington. Our European allies found vocal segments of their populations in near full revolt from their partnership with the United States. For a few years, as the ...
Iraq War to Be Renamed
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe war in Iraq, currently known as Operation Iraqi Freedom, is getting a new name. As of Sept. 1, the war will be called "Operation New Dawn," ABC News reported Thursday. The change will coincide with "the change of mission for U.S. forces in Iraq," Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote in a memo this week to the Commander of Central Command, Gen. David Petraeus. Sept. 1 is the date the Obama administration has scheduled to begin withdrawing U.S. combat troops. The name change will send "a strong signal that Operation IRAQI FREEDOM has ended and our forces are operating under a new ...
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