{"id":802,"date":"2008-10-17T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T20:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2008-10-17T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T20:01:37","slug":"marines-quietly-begin-leaving-bases-in-iraqi-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/17\/marines-quietly-begin-leaving-bases-in-iraqi-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines Quietly Begin Leaving Bases in Iraqi Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

On July 16th I wrote short post wondering if Iraq could be the Democrats Waterloo<\/a>… For better or worse I think most Americans are more interested in the economy than they are Iraq now but the fact that Marines are quietly withdrawing from Fallujah is indeed good news.<\/p>\n

From Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Last One Turn Out the Lights: Marines Quietly Begin Leaving Bases in Iraqi Cities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday, October 17, 2008<\/p>\n

By Jennifer Griffin<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 When Marine Maj. Gen. John Kelly deployed to Iraq in February, the violence had fallen so low in Anbar province that he began figuring out how to start closing bases and prepare to go home.<\/p>\n

In the last 10 months the Marines in Fallujah have done what was unthinkable before the surge began \u2014 they have quietly transferred out of one of Anbar province’s largest cities. FOX News has learned in an exclusive interview with Kelly from Fallujah that 80 percent of the move is complete. In February there were 8,000 Marines living at Fallujah base. Now there are about 3,000 left. By Nov. 14 there will be none.<\/p>\n

“We will shut down the command function here and I will move; my staff has already started to move,” Kelly, the commander of Multinational Force-West, told FOX News in an exclusive interview via satellite. “We will turn the lights off here.”<\/p>\n

They will hand the Fallujah base over to their Iraqi counterparts on Nov. 14, having relocated themselves and thousands of combat vehicles to the desert base of Al Asad to the west. Marines will no longer be seen in city centers such as Fallujah \u2014 a major step toward leaving Iraq, and one step closer to Iraq’s goal of having U.S. troops out of its population centers by mid-2009 \u2014 one of the key points enshrined in the Status of Forces Agreement being reviewed on Capitol Hill today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m still not ready to join Micheal Yon in saying the war is over<\/a> but we have turned the corner and are on the path to victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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