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Military leaders and u. S. Allies and the senior figures in trumps. Republican policy have all warned of the dangers of putting too many troops out before the conditions are right. I think its extremely important here in the next couple of months. Not to have any earth shaking changes with regard to defense and foreign policy. Think up or ship, it is drawdown, and either afghanistan or iraq would be a mistake. Well, lets not get the view from iraq al jazeera somehow to feltons and back that the reduction of u. S. Troops in iraq to 2500. 00 is not that significant in light of the drawdown that already took place earlier this year. In january, there were 5000. 00 troops present in country that number was reduced to 3000 as of september and of course, the political and security context that precipitated this reduction was rather complex. Back in january, we had the u. S. Assassination of iranian general custom still in miami, as well as other iraqi officials, which prompted the parliament
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Disease including severe disease in people who receive. Its really just a milestone though we have a lot of work ahead of us. Knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, but we still need to complete the regulatory process, which involves completing the study, generating more data, follow it safe. And then of course, we need to get busy manufacture. Alan fisher has more from washington d. C. So heres a little bit of good news. 1st of all pfizer announcing last week that they had a vaccine that was more than 90 percent effective. Far more than many of the experts had predicted they would get in the 1st stages of testing here. I know we have a 2nd company saying that they have a vaccine that they can get out to people, probably 20000000 doses by the end of the year, going to people who are front line workers or noise, most at risk with ineffectiveness in the early tests of more than 94 percent. So its been difficult for many people to get through this period, but there is