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February 21, 2005

Bring the Troops Home

Ted Kennedy has been harping for months to bring the troops home from the occupation. The good news for him is someone is finally responding to his pleas. The bad news is that it isn't the U.S.:

Syria indicated on Monday it would start withdrawing some of its troops from Lebanon soon, but President Bush insisted it should "end its occupation" of its neighbor.

"President Bashar al-Assad stressed more than once in (our) talks his firm intention to press ahead with the implementation of the Taif agreement and to plan a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon in line with this agreement," he [Arab League chief Amr Moussa] told reporters after meeting Assad in Damascus.

Syria, which has 14,000 troops in Lebanon, pulled out or redeployed a few thousand troops last year. It was widely expected to pull out some more troops ahead of a general election in Lebanon, due to take place by May.

Is it reasonable to think this would be happening had the U.S. not gone into Iraq? I think not.

Posted by bubba138 at February 21, 2005 09:14 PM