Blair to Announce Phased Withdrawal From Iraq

While Bush is escallating, Tony Blair plans to announce “a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq.” The Guardian reports that “All British troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the end of 2008.”

Josh Marshall quotes John Kerry on Britain’s phased withdrawal: “America’s leading ally in Iraq has decided that a timetable for the phased redeployment of troops is the only responsible policy to help force Iraqis to stand up for Iraq. After years of touting Prime Minister Blair’s resolve, the Administration should now pay attention to his new policy. This announcement makes it all the more inexplicable that the President and leading Republicans actually want to send more American troops into the middle of an Iraqi civil war.”

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