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<blockquote data-quote="Panin" data-source="post: 1409786" data-attributes="member: 52431">2008 U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces AgreementIn 2008 the American and Iraqi governments signed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement" target="_blank">U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement</a>, after being sought by the Bush Administration and the Iraqi government. It included a specific date, 30 June 2009, by which American forces should withdraw from Iraqi cities, and a complete withdrawal date from Iraqi territory by 31 December 2011.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq#cite_note-27" target="_blank">[27]</a> On 14 December 2008 then-President George W. Bush signed the security agreement with Iraq. In his fourth and final trip to Iraq, President Bush appeared in a televised news conference with Iraq&#039;s prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to celebrate the agreement and applauded security gains in Iraq saying that just two years ago &quot;such an agreement seemed impossible&quot;.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq#cite_note-28" target="_blank">[28]</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Panin, post: 1409786, member: 52431"] [SIZE=4][B]2008 U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement[/B][/SIZE] In 2008 the American and Iraqi governments signed the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement']U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement[/URL], after being sought by the Bush Administration and the Iraqi government. It included a specific date, 30 June 2009, by which American forces should withdraw from Iraqi cities, and a complete withdrawal date from Iraqi territory by 31 December 2011.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq#cite_note-27'][27][/URL] On 14 December 2008 then-President George W. Bush signed the security agreement with Iraq. In his fourth and final trip to Iraq, President Bush appeared in a televised news conference with Iraq's prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to celebrate the agreement and applauded security gains in Iraq saying that just two years ago "such an agreement seemed impossible".[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq#cite_note-28'][28][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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