Word: withdrawals
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...Neill, for whom I worked half a dozen years, would have called Grandpop a "street-corner guy like myself." Tip took greatest joy in the days when he got a fellow Irishman a deserved promotion at a Cambridge bank by threatening to withdraw the church's charity money. The other day I was on the phone with Brady, and he told me about interrupting a phone call from one of the two Democratic presidential candidates to help save a guy's turnpike job. Same deal...
...will maintain the troop support in Iraq if the Iraqi government requests it. "The U.S. has a commitment to the people of Iraq. They liberated them and they have come to rebuild the country. Whoever the next President is - even Hillary Clinton - I don't think they will withdraw troops from Iraq," he said. But so long as that concern is met, Sheikhly said he would choose Obama. "I support Barack Obama because I think he is reliable. He is trying to fix the base of American society and trying to cleanse American foreign policy...
...Qaeda in Iraq has in the past shown deftness in timing gruesome attacks to maximize public attention in the hopes of shaping political decisions. A sudden string of insurgent attacks around August would likely leave Petraeus and decision makers in the Bush White House reluctant to withdraw more troops...
...deployments in dangerous areas refer to as "burden sharing." Those tensions remain, but a commitment by France to send up to 1,000 troops to eastern Afghanistan, made before this summit and confirmed on Thursday, has alleviated immediate concerns over a fracture in the Alliance. Canada has threatened to withdraw its forces from the dangerous zone around Kandahar; the French move should allow the U.S. to redeploy more troops from the east to Kandahar and other hot spots. For Air Chief Marshall Jock Stirrup, the head of Britain's armed forces, this "sends a very important signal...
...escalating as Patraeus, the architect of the nine-month military "surge" involving some 30,000 extra troops in Iraq, prepares for a scheduled Apr. 8 and 9 report to congress on his progress in Iraq. They also come as he and Defense Secretary Robert Gates waffle over whether to withdraw five combat brigades by July, reducing troop levels down from about 158,000 to 140,000 - the pre-surge peak. If the fighting spreads to other southern cities and attacks by Shi'ite militias increase, intra-Shiite violence may be the wrench that jams the whole works of a meaningful...