Thursday, March 31, 2005

another country pulling out

Viktor Yushchenko Confirms That Ukraine Soldiers Will Leave Iraq by End of Year

KIEV, Ukraine -- President Viktor Yushchenko confirmed Thursday that Ukraine's troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year.
"It will be by mid-October, but I don't exclude that this date can be changed a little. But for sure our troops will leave Iraq this year," Yushchenko said at a briefing for foreign journalists ahead of his trip to the United States that begins Sunday.

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Are we going to be the only country with troops in Iraq? Of course, we were always the vast majority, but boy, that "coalition of the willing" seems to be a lot less willing these days....