Permanent Occupation: Gates Admits US Troops To Remain In Iraq Beyond 2011

Deadline after deadline after meaningless withdrawal deadline passes

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
April 8, 2011
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The world’s media reacted with a collective shrug of the shoulders today as Defense Secretary Robert Gates admitted that US troops are likely to stay in Iraq beyond 2011, making another scheduled withdrawal date nothing more than an empty meaningless promise

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There will be no withdrawal, because a permanent military occupation was agreed long ago.

The date for the final pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq keeps being pushed back further and further. Obama campaigned in 2008 on the promise that he would “immediatelyâ€