surprise. the president had been mentioning that time and time again, even at fund-raisers, it was an applause line. he says, we re moving all of our troops out of iraq. i pledge to do that by the end of 2011,time going to accomplish that. what was new was there were negotiations with the iraqi government to leave sort of a residual force, some 5,000 was one number mentioned. other people mentioned 10,000, to try to hold iraqi society together while the army there and defense forces within iraq are able to stand up on its feet, and reason iraqi generals are quoted this morning as saying, that could be years away. and also, to keep the influence of iran at bay, the huge country next to iraq, iraq is already, of course, fought a war with that country within the last 20 years or so. now we re talking about an over the horizon force, as reported in the new york times. more troops in neighboring kuwait, of course, just to the south of iraq, and working with the gulf cooperation counsel, t