Occupation Iraq: Texas Escalation

A photograph the web world would have never seen: 

"READY TO SERVE -- Members of the 36th Infantry Division of the Texas National Guard participated in a ceremony in Austin, Texas, yesterday honoring their service and upcoming mission in Iraq. They will train Iraqi security forces and assist in the US troop withdrawal from that nation (Boston Globe September 27 2010)." 

What do they mean upcoming mission?  I thought we were leaving.  

How is SENDING MORE TROOPS a WITHDRAWAL?

Someone called the raise:

"Soldier dies in noncombat event in Iraq  

I suppose they are all noncombat deaths now, huh?

A Connecticut soldier has died while serving in Iraq. The body of Private First Class Gebrah Noonan of Watertown was returned Saturday to Dover Air Force Base, Del. The Defense Department did not provide details about the death of Noonan, who was 26 and served in the Army. Governor M. Jodi Rell said Noonan died Thursday in a noncombat incident in Fallujah. His death is the second Connecticut casualty in about a month. Army National Guard Sergeant Steven Deluzio of South Glastonbury was killed Aug. 22 in Afghanistan.

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Also see: Why Americans Are Dying in Afghanistan