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Prime Minister Tony Blair lit a small firestorm by announcing that, in the coming months, 1,600 out of a total of 7,100 British troops are to be withdrawn from Basra and its surrounding province in southern Iraq.(Brief article)

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Prime Minister Tony Blair lit a small firestorm by announcing that, in the coming months, 1,600 out of a total of 7,100 British troops are to be withdrawn from Basra and its surrounding province in southern Iraq. Also in the coming months, Blair is due to leave office, and his critics have jumped in to complain that the withdrawal of troops is only a cheap and last-minute effort to regain lost popularity for the sake of his "legacy." Those with a vested political interest in quagmire and defeat are hoping that the U.S. has lost its principal ally. How ...

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