I’ve often seen claims coming from opponents of Barack Obama from the far left that Obama is escalating the war in Iraq. The reality is that he is reducing troops there, leading to a milestone today as the number of US forces in Iraq has fallen below 100,000 for the first time since the invasion in 2003:
The size of the US force in Iraq has dropped below 100,000 troops for the first time since the invasion of the country in 2003, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
“We have approximately 98,000 service members here at this time,” First Lieutenant Elizabeth Feste said in an email.
The total number of US soldiers in Iraq peaked at 170,000 in 2007 during then US president George W. Bush’s so-called “surge” of troops in a bid to stabilise the country which was wracked by sectarian violence.
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