Georgian troops leaving Iraq occupation to try and prevent Russian occupation of Georgia

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq10-2008aug10,0,6719247.story

The commander says the troops will return to Georgia to fight Russia's troops in clashes over breakaway republic South Ossetia.

By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

August 10, 2008


BAGHDAD -- The commander of the 2,000 Georgian troops in Iraq said Saturday that his soldiers would leave the country to join the fight against Russia over a separatist Georgian republic.

Though relatively small in number, the Georgians have made up the third-largest force of foreign troops in Iraq, behind the United States and Britain. They mostly have been deployed to bolster security along the border with Iran, where U.S. officials say bombs that cause most American troop deaths are smuggled into the country.

Oops! Problems at home! Gotta run! Bye-bye!

That could get nasty.

Shites in Iraq. I going to go out on a limb and say the troop rotation lengths aren't going to go down now.

As if there ever was one...........

Quite a turnaround.

Don