Japan To Likely Pull Troops From Iraq

Seems like the coalition of the willing are becoming the coalition of the intelligent. Anyway Japan will probably pull out.

This comes after the announcement that Italy may also pull its troops out under their new prime minister who labels the fighting in Iraq as a "grave error".

Japan has begun making arrangements with the United States, Britain and Australia on a possible withdrawl of its troops from Iraq beginning in June, a press report has said.

The move Saturday was initiated as the southern Iraqi prefecture of Al-Muthanna, where the troops are stationed, was expected to regain authority from the multinational force by the end of June, the daily Yomiuri Shimbun said in its evening edition.

Japan, which renounced war under a US-imposed 1947 constitution, has some 600 troops in Iraq on its first military mission since World War II to a country where fighting is under way.

Japan may make a decision on the troop withdrawl as early as June and immediately start pulling out the troops, initially to neighbouring Kuwait, the daily quoted government sources as saying.

There are government leaders who can make intelligent decisions about what is right for the people and what is wrong with earlier decisions and make corrections. Of course we don't have such a leader.