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July 31, 2009

Secret US Military Memo Calls for Iraq Withdrawal
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A top US military official has called for an early withdrawal from Iraq
more than a year ahead of the late-2011 deadline. In a confidential
memo, Colonel Timothy Reese writes, “Guests, like fish, begin to smell
after three days. Since the signing of the 2009 security agreement, we
are guests in Iraq and after six years in Iraq, we now smell bad to the
Iraqi nose.” Reese currently serves in Baghdad as a US military adviser
to the Iraqi army.



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