HomeComing: Bush to pull about 8,000 troops from Iraq

There are about 146,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

WASHINGTON – President Bush will keep roughly the same number of U.S. forces in Iraq through the end of the year and pull about 8,000 troops home by February, a drawdown that's both slower and smaller than long anticipated.

In a speech to be delivered Tuesday, Bush says more forces could withdraw in the first half of 2009. But for now, the situation isn't changing significantly.

By the time the troops return home on the timeline Bush is proposing, someone else will be making the wartime decisions from the Oval Office.

Mr. President... Why were they sent to Iraq in the first place?

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But they are not coming home they are being sent to Afghanistan

 

Well Afghanistan is safe than Iraq for them Poor innocent soldiers died for nothing

 

The mujahadeen were defeated, the Surge worked. Thanks for sharing the great news