Saturday, September 5, 2009

Occupation Iraq: U.S. Troops Return to Patrols

Actually, we never stopped.

See:
Occupation Iraq: The Lie of Leaving

I seem to remember something like that a while back, but....

"Iraqi Arabs denounce US proposal to allow Kurd troops in patrols" by Bushra Juhi, Associated Press | September 6, 2009

BAGHDAD - General Ray Odierno said deployment of the US-Iraqi-Kurdish protection forces would start in Ninevah province, which includes Mosul, then extend to Kirkuk and to Diyala province....

Hundreds of Sunni Arabs opposed to the presence of Kurdish troops in disputed areas of northern Iraq demonstrated yesterday against a US proposal to deploy a mixed force of American, Kurdish, and Iraqi soldiers in the area.

More than 300 people in the Sunni-dominated town of Hawija, once an insurgent stronghold, gathered in a stadium to protest the inclusion of Kurdish troops in these patrols.

The demonstrators and critics elsewhere in Iraq also denounce the plan as a violation of a security pact under which the United States pulled its troops back from populated areas in June....

Even though we never really did.

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