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Iraq

Asked whether the Prime Minister concurred with Major General Dutton, the commander in charge of MNDSE, who said it was realistic that troops could come home in 6 months, the PMOS said he had not heard the specific comments. However, in relation to the Times story of today, he was surprised that they thought it was a front-page lead. Our position all along had been that as and when the Iraqi forces were capable of taking the load then that was when it would be possible to think about them taking the burden rather than our troops. The future of the process of "Iraqi-isation" and the future of Iraq would be decided at 33,000 polling booths this week in Iraq. When we started the process of "Iraqi-isation" we had said the Multinational Force would work in cooperation with the Iraqi Government and it was the Iraqi Government that would decide the pace of change.

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