Don't be a dick Teribus - you know perfectly well the point I was making was to refute the inference contained in dianavan's assertion, that the UK's 'pulling out' of Iraq meant a complete withdrawal of our troops from that theatre of action.

And, whether the exact same individuals who leave Iraq are deployed to Afghanistan or not is immaterial to the point I was making - the fact is that a number of UK troops are due to leave Iraq soon, and a roughly similar number will go to Afghanistan. That's the point I was making. Period.