Bush loses Blair: "Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce on Wednesday a new timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, the BBC reported. Blair will also tell the House of Commons during his regular weekly appearance that a total of about 3,000 British soldiers will have left southern Iraq by the end of 2007, if the security there is sufficient, the British Broadcasting Corp. said, quoting government officials who weren't further identified."
If the security there is sufficient sounds like a damn big if to me. I can't imagine how that's going to be measured, but wev. If all goes to plan and those 3,000 UK soldiers are out by the end of the year, that's almost 50% of all British troops.
In what has to be one of the most hilarious, mendacious, and deluded bits of spin ever, "Bush said Britain's troop cutbacks were 'a sign of success' in Iraq." Uh huh. Pop the champagne, bitchez.
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