September 15, 2011
US, Iraq Can't Decide on Post-2011 Troop Presence
Washington, With three-and-a-half-months left to go, Washington and Baghdad aren't close to deciding how many Americans troops will be left in Iraq after the Dec. 31, 2011 deadline.
A pact signed by the previous administration and Iraqi government officials dictated that virtually all U.S. soldiers would be out of Iraq by January. President Obama wants to keep to the letter of the agreement, perhaps leaving just 3,000 of the 47,000 remaining military personnel behind in what mostly will be a training capacity.
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