CBS Evening News - 2007-02-21
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[0:01] I'm Katie kurick tonight prime minister
[0:03] Blair makes it official America's Chief
[0:05] Ally in Iraq will start pulling out
[0:08] increasingly our role will be support
[0:10] and training and our numbers will be
[0:12] able to reduce
[0:13] accordingly also tonight Healthcare cost
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[0:18] dire predictions for the future a very
[0:22] special employee benefit how some
[0:24] Progressive companies are helping
[0:25] workers bear the burden of caring for an
[0:28] aging parent
[0:33] this is the CBS Evening News with Katy
[0:38] kurk hello everyone we begin tonight
[0:40] with the shrinking us-led Coalition in
[0:43] Iraq British Prime Minister Tony Blair
[0:45] today made official what we reported
[0:47] last night America's number one Ally
[0:50] will begin withdrawing hundreds of its
[0:52] troops from bason and elsewhere in
[0:53] southern Iraq over the next few months
[0:56] Denmark a much smaller Ally announced
[0:58] today it will withdraw its entire
[1:00] contingent of just over 400 so the
[1:03] Coalition which at its peak included the
[1:05] United States and 38 other nations is
[1:08] down to the US and 21 other nations us
[1:11] troop strength in Iraq is now
[1:13] 139,000 and growing the others just over
[1:17] 14,000 and shrinking we have reports
[1:20] tonight from Iraq Washington and London
[1:22] We Begin there with Richard Roth Richard
[1:24] the British withdrawal appears to be a
[1:26] real Turning
[1:27] Point Katie I don't think there's any
[1:30] question the timetable is a little rough
[1:32] but the message is clearcut the British
[1:34] are now looking at the end of their
[1:36] military involvement in
[1:40] Iraq the bells were tolling at a church
[1:42] in northern England for 21-y