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Barack Obama planned to pull troops from Iraq in 2010

Barack Obama has announced that he will pull back troops from Iraq in August 2010.The number of military men in Iraq is 142,000 and it is expected that the number will be reduced to 50,000 by August 2010.

Obama had promised during elections that he will pull back troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking presidential office and Obama started redirecting troops to Afghanistan and ordered to deploy extra 17,000 troops in Afghanistan.