HASWAH BLUES - U.S. Army 1st Lt. Andrew Williams radios status updates during a neighborhood patrol with Iraqi police officers in Haswah, Iraq, Jan. 13, 2009. Williams is assigned to the 4th Infantry Division's Charlie Troop, 1st Squadron, 10th Calvary Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class James WagnerMarine Commander: 'Time Is Right' For Marines To Leave Iraq -- McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The top Marine commander said Friday that his forces already had begun pulling equipment out of Iraq and that nearly all of his troops could be out in as little as six months.
"The time is right for the Marines to leave Iraq," Gen. James Conway, the commandant of the Marine Corps, said at a breakfast with reporters. Any "sustainment force" in Iraq, he added, will be almost exclusively from the Army.
The Marine withdrawal from Iraq is one of many efforts to shift forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, where President Barack Obama has pledged to send more U.S. troops. At the Pentagon, which until now has focused principally on Iraq, officials are reassessing their tactics and reconfiguring their equipment to shift toward Afghanistan.
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