After 9 years, time for troops to leave Iraq

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Author(s) USA Today editorial board
Source USA Today
Date October 25, 2011
URL http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/story/2011-10-24/troops-leave-Iraq/50897500/1
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Quotes-start.png One strategy that the administration weighed last summer was to leave a tiny residual force, perhaps as few as 3,000 troops — not enough to secure the country, just enough to make a tempting and vulnerable target. Another would be to stay on uninvited. With a majority of Iraqis already seeing the United States as an occupier not a liberator, that would have been a bonanza for the Iranians and Islamist radicals alike. Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Coalition troops should pull out on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.