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March will bring the beginning of the British army’s withdrawal from Iraq, a move that will the current force of 4,100 down to roughly 400 by the summer.
As foolhardy as the U.S. invasion may have been, there’s a sick sense in which it was understandable for the British to acquiesce: there’s a longstanding establishmentarian strain [...]

DAYTON, Ohio — After finishing an education address that was supposed to drive his campaign message today, Sen. Barack Obama tacked a press conference onto his Ohio schedule, in order to catch up with President George W. Bush’s big announcement of a small withdrawal of troops from Iraq — and a surgelet for Afghanistan.
Speaking [...]