US to replace British troops

looks like a real withdrawal...

updated 1 hour, 36 minutes ago
BASRA, Iraq - American troops will move into southern Iraq early next year to replace departing British forces, the top U.S. general in Iraq said.

His comments came as Iraq's major parliamentary parties reached a compromise Sunday to allow approval of a resolution allowing all foreign troops other than Americans to remain in Iraq until July 2009. Britain has said its 4,000 troops will withdraw from the southern port city of Basra by the end of May.

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