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GWB went to show his ever aging, sorry, lovely face on the US news withint he past 24hrs, stating that he will be bringing near enough 6000 troops home by next July.
Now, will he stand by this? Is this just a ploy to try and keep his status as president? Or do we think he has seen sense?
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Now, will he stand by this? Is this just a ploy to try and keep his status as president? Or do we think he has seen sense?
US President George W Bush has made a televised address backing a limited withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Mr Bush said 5,700 personnel would be home by Christmas, and expected thousands more to return by July 2008.
He said he had accepted the advice of US commander in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, who gave a progress report to Congress earlier this week.
The plan would take troop numbers back to their level before Mr Bush ordered a "surge" at the start of this year.
The Democrats had called for a change of course, accusing the president of giving no plan on how to end the war.
And, says the BBC's Justin Webb in Washington, they reacted to this speech with unusually strong condemnation. One presidential candidate, Joe Biden, called it shameful and bizarre.
Mr Bush's speech followed the news that a key Sunni ally of the US had been killed in Iraq.
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