When will the US pull troops out of Iraq?  
The US invaded Iraq (called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" by the US administration) in March, 2003.   On May 1, 2003, Bush announced the "end of major combat operations".  As of July, 2006, there have been 2570 US fatalities and over 18,000 wounded personnel. At least 40,000 Iraqi citizens have been killed. The US has spent and approved to spend in Iraq $435 billion in US taxpayers' money.



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1. When do you think the US will have pulled the majority of its troops out of Iraq? (for the sake of this poll, assume "majority" means 90% of the current 127,000 troops deployed in Iraq)
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Sometime after 2015 (ie more than 9 years from now)

Posted: Wednesday July 26, 2006, 11:00 pm
     

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