The decision by the British regime to withdraw a number of its occupation troops from Iraq has drawn reactions from inside and outside the US. The American press in the past couple of days has repeatedly reviewed this issue and have reported the end of the war coalition in Iraq.

The Los Angeles Time wrote: the US should take lesson from the withdrawal of the British troops from Iraq and stop beating the drums of war through deceit on the pretext of creating stability because the members of the war coalition are leaving the bloody war zone of Iraq, The last of such coalition members was Britain the closest US ally which announced it would pull its troops out.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week announced that by the summer of 2008 half of the total number of British occupation forces will be withdrawn from Iraq. Therefore only 2500 British occupation forces will remain in Iraq, which compared to the 130,000 forces of the US occupiers is nothing.

One day before Brown’s decision the Czech Republic, which is also an accomplice to the American-occupation of Iraq, said it would pull its 100 forces out of Iraq. With such a decision the Czech Republic also joined ranks of countries withdrawing their occupation forces from Iraq.

Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Japan, the Netherlands and Norway were among countries whose occupation contingents have been withdrawn from Iraq. As this trend continues the efforts by the US regime to justify the occupation of Iraq will receive a serious blow. Of course, from the very beginning of the Iraq war there was no real coalition and the US regime had the biggest share in terms of the number of occupation forces and military equipment in Iraq.

The number of soldiers dispatched by some of the so-called war coalition members was less than 50 and they never participated in any military operation. US President George W. Bush in a bid to deflect public pressures has said that by the summer of 2008 he will bring 100,000 of his occupation troops out of Iraq. But still it is not certain whether Bush will keep his promise.

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