US accepts British Iraq withdrawal: White House

WASHINGTON - The United States has no objections to Britain's announced plans to bring 1,000 troops home from Iraq by Christmas, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters Tuesday.
Asked whether Washington was comfortable with the withdrawal, which comes amid a bitter debate here over US troops levels Perino replied: "Yes."
"The Iraqi security forces have been working with the British there in Basra, and they've been working to get to this point, where the Iraqis say they are able to take over the security," she told reporters.
"It seems to me that the British are right on schedule with what they had planned," she said, adding that there would still be some 4,500 British forces in Basra and another 1,000 in the region.
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10/02/2007 13:42 GMT