1.0 link 144890 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/19/newly-signed-sofa-to-spur_n_144890.html As has been widely reported, the recently signed Status of Forces Agreement between the United States and the Iraqi Cabinet could potentially "[close] the book on the occupation that began with the U.S.-led invasion in 2003." The agreement, which calls for U.S. forces to pull out of Iraqi cities in the middle of next year and remove themselves entirely from Iraq by 2011, reverses the entrenchment that President George W. Bush originally envisioned, and dovetails with the "withdraw-and-redeploy" plan...

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