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April 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda In a Tuesday speech to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra, Gillard said that the troop withdrawal will kick off later this year and will be completed by mid-2013.
Australia had originally scheduled to withdraw its soldiers by the end of 2014.
“This is a war with a purpose. This is a war with an end,” Gillard said, adding, “We have a strategy, a mission and a timeframe for achieving it.”
Gillard added that she will take her timetable for the early pullout to a conference on Afghanistan to be held in Chicago in May.
“We will have completed our training and mentoring mission. … And the majority of our troops will have returned home,” she said.
The premier noted that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to make the announcement “in the coming months” that his country is ready to take security responsibility for Uruzgan Province, where most Australian forces are stationed.
The early withdrawal would mean Australian troops are likely to return home before the next parliamentary elections.
Gillard is struggling in opinion polls and many people are against the deployment to Afghanistan. Australia has more than 1,550 troops stationed in the war-torn country and has so far lost 32 soldiers in the conflict.
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