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With Tony Blair set to annouce the day he will step down next week it will be interesting to see if the Labour party and Gordon Brown (the new PM) will backtrack on the Iraq policy and pull the British troops out. There will be considerable public pressure to begin withdrawals as the lack of stated clarity about what the mission's goals and how to achieve them is putting a lot of pressure on the Labour government to disengage before the next general election. Probably not a shocker but it does place the Conservative Party in the unusual position of taking a policy line opposite to the US for the first time in any one's memory.
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