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Two of America's allies in Iraq are withdrawing forces this month and a half-dozen others are debating possible pullouts or reductions, increasing pressure on Washington as calls mount to bring home U.S. troops.

Bulgaria and Ukraine will begin withdrawing their combined 1,250 troops by mid-December. If Australia, Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland and South Korea reduce or recall their personnel, more than half of the non-American forces in Iraq could be gone by next summer.
If anything could move up our time table for leaving, this could be it. Support for the war is waning in the U.S. and obviously abroad. If our allies leave it will look like the U.S. is on a personal mission. Hopefully our allies will coordinate their withdrawal with us so we don't leave the country in a worse state than when we entered it.

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posted at 09:32:14 on 12/02/05 - Category: Army

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Kyle wrote:

Well thats pretty stupid. You leave when the job is over and it clearly isn't. You know what they say: "If you want the job done right, you have to do it yourself."
12/02/05 22:59:58

nina wrote:

It's hard having love ones in iraq weve done more than we wanted to do. it would be a good thing to pull out we have soldiers dying for no reason. my fiance is in iraq i want him back and im sure other families want their sposes..
12/03/05 20:25:28

Rikki wrote:

I agree with Nina on this. We have done our job and if others are pulling out then we should do the same. It would be very difficult to do this on our own, and our men and women are dying every day for no reason. We need to pull out all of our troops and plan for the future of the U.S.
12/04/05 23:36:16

mrl wrote:

It upsets me just as much as anyone seeing another american die in iraq, but it is for a reason, not only are we making that country better, but we are also keeping ours safer... I my not know alot but I do know that terrorists look for weaknesses and they attack, by leaving iraq before the juob is completly done will show weakness, and you know what will happen next.
12/05/05 08:17:10

Innes wrote:

I agree with MRL. If we pull out now, the U.S. will soon be run over by terrorists, and more Americans will die. Why don't people realize this??!!
12/05/05 23:21:50

Dave wrote:

The sad thing is that the men in iraq r dying for no reason. People say there fighting for freedom but the sad truth is that iraq's voters get intimadated in2 voting for who the terrorists want in power.They say we should'nt leave until the job is done I say the job is a lost cause.
12/06/05 07:57:34

Branden wrote:

Our soliders are fighting for a reason.To protect our country and give our kids a future! Was the first attack by Iraqi Terrorist not enough. It makes no sense for us to them to build another army and maybe even oppose a greater attack on the U.S. We will win this war!!
12/07/05 06:26:32

kirk wrote:

Please wake up! The only way to stabilize Iraq is to be present there 4-eva....just like Korea. This war is indeed a lost cause! Let us get out now and concentrate on our economy!
12/27/05 10:18:26

Katlynn wrote:

Hardly anyone in the country even wants us over there? Why are we sending our men over there and letting them die when they don't even want us over there? Why help when they don't deserve it?
10/01/06 09:14:05

Christian wrote:

You guys are sad excuses for americans. Reading everyone's opinion here , we are doomed to die. I hope the terrorists come here. You all deserve it for sending our troops to a STUPID war that served no purpose.The US army is not made for countering guerilla strikes against invisible terrorist groups: it is made for carpet-bombing trench-jumping bombastic World War II-style battles against cohesive and militarily equal states. The only thing that you mid-west naive americans did is engage us in generations of islamic attacks because we pissed them off so badly. How stupid of our Bush , the administration and most importantly the americans that put BUSH in power that you can stop so called "terrorism" with guns. Wanted to thankk all of you who love seeing our troops there, thanks for getting them killed for nothing. THanks so much! You believe the war so much? You go over there and fight you whimps who fear arabs!
11/28/06 18:54:14

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06/20/07 23:50:20

USA wrote:

I'm really suprised by everyone's opinion. Did any of you see the videos of the World Trade Centers going down? If one of my family members died in that, I would have enlisted the next day if I was old enough. I guess its your opinion. If you want your kid to live in a world full of terrorism, yeah, lets pull out of Iraq. But I think that until the job's done, we should be there. I'm going to college to be a doctor, but I just joined Air Force ROTC because I believe in the cause so much. Seriously get a life people.
04/19/08 15:16:21

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