They could have even less of a frontline role from June 30 when, as part of a phasedwithdrawal from Iraq, they begin to pull out from urban centres.
按照阶段性撤军的计划,到6月30日,他们将开始从市中心撤出,美军在前线的角色将进一步减弱。
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And yet he had been a member of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel that advocated a phasedwithdrawal from Iraq soon after Mr Gates's appointment.
The question is whether or not my position, in suggesting that we need to begin a phasedwithdrawal, we should have begun it earlier, whether that position that I took was a mistake.