Surge Progress May Lead to Troop Reductions in Northern Iraq

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	Surge Progress May Lead to Troop Reductions in Northern Iraq

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7-18-2007 12:41 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aad28e0a-f1e0-42d0-9936-ec712e7f9e23/F33FD3E0-84E5-42B8-BF01-8E55F3662EDA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/FrontPage%20Stories/Surge%20progress%20may%20lead%20to%20troop%20reductions%20in%20northern%20Iraq,%20general%20says.aspx" href="http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/FrontPage%20Stories/Surge%20progress%20may%20lead%20to%20troop%20reductions%20in%20northern%20Iraq,%20general%20says.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.centcom.mil</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/FrontPage%20Stories/Surge%20progress%20may%20lead%20to%20troop%20reductions%20in%20northern%20Iraq,%20general%20says.aspx">Now at full strength, the U.S. troop surge in Iraq is showing “definitive progress” and the number of forces serving in Iraq’s Multi-National Division-North could be halved by summer 2009, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/FrontPage%20Stories/Surge%20progress%20may%20lead%20to%20troop%20reductions%20in%20northern%20Iraq,%20general%20says.aspx">A reduction of U.S. forces under the general’s command could begin as early as January 2008</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/FrontPage%20Stories/Surge%20progress%20may%20lead%20to%20troop%20reductions%20in%20northern%20Iraq,%20general%20says.aspx">Mixon said the current debate over troop withdrawal should revolve around reaching a strategic “end state.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/FrontPage%20Stories/Surge%20progress%20may%20lead%20to%20troop%20reductions%20in%20northern%20Iraq,%20general%20says.aspx">“It seems to me that we should first decide what we want the end state to be in Iraq, and how is that end state important to the United States of America, to this region and to the world, and then determine how we can reach that end state, and how much time that will take,” he said. “To me, that seems to be the most important thing, because there will be consequences of a rapid withdrawal from Iraq.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/FrontPage%20Stories/Surge%20progress%20may%20lead%20to%20troop%20reductions%20in%20northern%20Iraq,%20general%20says.aspx"><FONT size="2" color="#000000">“It cannot be a strategy based on, ‘Well, we need to leave,’” he added. “That’s not a strategy, that’s a withdrawal.” </FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F33FD3E0-84E5-42B8-BF01-8E55F3662EDA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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