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| Most US troops in Iraq home within |
| Most US troops in Iraq home within a year
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 2-February-2009
1:4:25 AM |
| President Barack Obama told Americans on Sunday a substantial number of the 140,000 US troops in Iraq would be home within a year, saying Iraqis were now ready to take more responsibility for their own security.
Obama, who inherited two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, pledged during his presidential campaign to withdraw all US troops from Iraq within 16 months, at a rate of one or two brigades a month.
In an interview with 'NBC' television, Obama praised the provincial elections held in Iraq at the weekend, the most peaceful polls since US-led forces invaded in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein.
Asked in the NBC interview whether a substantial number of troops would be home in time for next year's Super Bowl, the National Football League's championship game being played on Sunday, Obama replied: "Yes. We are going to roll out in a very formal fashion what our intentions are in Iraq as well as Afghanistan."
The Obama administration has launched a comprehensive review of America's strategy in Afghanistan, where NATO-led forces are struggling to cope with spiraling violence and a resurgent Taliban militancy.
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