Obama's decision to gradually withdraw US combat forces from Iraq was fully consonant with Bush's policy.
Meanwhile, Defence Secretary Liam Fox has restated a target of removing combat forces from the country by 2014.
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That's mainly because the bill stipulates that most U.S. combat forces be out of Iraq by September 2008.
Nato's International Security Assistance Force plans to withdraw all of its combat forces by the end of 2014.
Another 60 combat forces who worked throughout Iraq are also completing their deployments.
American combat forces should stay out of the conflict, for now, unless Syria unleashes chemical weapons directly or indirectly.
After all, the bulk of the combat forces poised to take Marjah were Afghan and the operation was to be technically Afghan-led.
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Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, says the United States cannot provide the war-torn nation with an "endless surge" of combat forces.
For his actions, last week, Asayag was removed from his command and barred from further service in combat forces by his battalion commander, Lt.
This is the first pilgrimage to take place since U.S. combat forces completed their withdrawal from Iraqi cities and urban areas on June 30.
There's a report this morning that Moscow has sent a ship that has combat forces to guard their deepwater port -- are we concerned about that?
Rice said her brief unannounced visit was not an attempt to show up European nations that have refused to send combat forces to Kandahar and other southern regions.
Petraeus recommended a 45-day "period of consolidation and evaluation" once the extra combat forces that President Bush ordered to Iraq last year have completed their pullout in July.
With international combat forces set to withdraw by the end of next year, such attacks are now used more for targeted killings and less for supporting ground troops.
The Turkish government finally agreed at least to allow the Coalition to send supplies through its territory, and South Korea belatedly voted to send 600 non-combat forces to Iraq.
In the United States, a bipartisan panel, the Iraq Study Group, has criticized the president's war policy and called for a conditional withdrawal of American combat forces by 2008.
If we could go back to the troops, again, who could potentially remain beyond 2014, is there a way to say, definitively, whether or not this might include combat forces?
After the United States, Great Britain is the largest contributor of combat forces in Afghanistan, and British troops and civilians have served and sacrificed in some of the most dangerous parts of the country.
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The plan is being described as analogous to contingency combat forces, like the Ready Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is always on standby to deploy within 18 hours.
As they skewer the opposition, they can also applaud the top U.S. commander in Iraq for saying U.S. combat forces there might be reduced by two brigades this fall (and by half over 18 months).
But an immediate shift toward strong regionally based diplomacy, a policy that takes our soldiers off the streets of Iraq's cities, and a formula that will in short order allow our combat forces to leave Iraq.
Rep. John McHugh, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said after the White House meeting that Obama assured him the plan to withdraw all combat forces will be revisited if conditions on the ground in Iraq deteriorate.
Mr. Obama's earlier insistence on withdrawing U.S. combat forces from Iraq and his abiding determination to pull out virtually all others by year's end has, as a practical matter, made it impossible for the government in Baghdad to ask us to stay on.
However, there is a growing realisation in the US and UK that allies such as Germany, France and Italy are unlikely to offer significant numbers of extra combat forces, or change the nature of their missions, says the BBC's Caroline Wyatt in Krakow.
We took months to adjust the organization, training, and support structures of our active combat forces, we experienced major problems with some aspects of the call up and training of our reserves, and we literally had to make thousands of modifications to our combat equipment, munitions, support equipment, and battle management and communications systems.
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