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| Blair: British Troops Will Stay in Iraq |
| 2005-09-26 |
 Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday that the ferocity of the insurgency in Iraq had taken him by surprise, but he insisted British troops would stay as long as the Iraqi government needed them. As his governing Labour Party gathered for its annual conference, Blair said he had not set a deadline to withdraw some 8,500 British soldiers from Iraq. "There is no arbitrary date being set," he said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Was she pretty, anon5089? That might explain your confusion. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-09-26 11:59 |
| #1 But, but... yesterday at the evening news on France 2, the teevee she-talking head said that Tony was going to withdraw his troops, starting soon in 2006... I'm so confused... damn, my head hurts! |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-09-26 07:25 |