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| US combat in Iraq to end by August |
| US combat in Iraq to end by August 2010: Obama
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 28-February-2009
1:12:52 AM |
| President Barack Obama on Friday moved to fulfil the defining promise of his campaign, saying all US combat troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of August 2010.
“I have come to speak to you about how the war in Iraq will end,'' Obama declared in his remarks to Marines and military leadership at the North Carolina base.
But in the same speech, Obama announced that the vast majority of those involved in the pullout will not leave this year. Obama also said that tens of thousands of US personnel will remain behind afterward.
“The most important decisions that have to be made about Iraq's future must now be made by Iraqis,'' the president said at the sprawling Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, base, which is about to deploy thousands of troops to the US's other war front, in Afghanistan.
Senior Obama administration officials had said earlier that of the roughly 100,000 US combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq over the next 18 months, most will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly. The pace of withdrawal means that although Obama's promised pullout will start soon, it will be backloaded, with most troops leaving in the last few months of the time frame.
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