I wrote an analysis here:
http://www.whyweworry.com/blog/2009/07/06/the-iraq-show/

General Raymond Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, gave a press conference Tuesday in which his most significant words might have been missed, because everyone is focusing on U.S. combat formations moving out of the cities. “We’ll be operating in the belts around Baghdad,” Odierno emphasized to reporters.

To those who watched the surge unfold, that’s an interesting phrase, because it signals that the U.S. strategy in the coming months will be to try to protect Baghdad by cutting off insurgents and militias operating in the fields, towns and palm groves that surround much of the capital. And that was where some of the heaviest fighting took place during the spring and summer of 2007, as “the surge” began. Indeed, of the 21 battalions sent to Iraq as surge forces, about half were deployed in Baghdad and about half around it.

Needless to say today was a happy day for him. He is very happy to see the Victory we have achieved in Iraq even if parts of our country refuse to call it a Victory.

As the U.S. military honored the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Iraq and pulled all combat troops from Iraqi cities, leaving Iraqi forces to take the lead, CNN hunk and war correspondent Michael Ware was asked how many troops would be coming home now that they have left Iraqi cities. His answer, “None.”

CNN: How many troops does this mean will actually be coming home because of the pull out?

MICHAEL WARE: Betty, the answers very simple: NONE. You’re still gonna have 130,000 US troops based here in the country, though their hands military will be very much be tied by the Iraqi government.

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This doesn’t mean that any of the GIs will be coming home any time soon. In terms of today meaning that there’s any homecomings about to happen, I’m afraid to disappoint, Betty.

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U.S. Forces are now very much in a supporting role. What they’re doing however is called ‘Stability Operations’, making sure the Iraqis don’t get themselves killed in any great numbers….

How many will be sent to surge into Afghanistan?

More from Ricks’ commenter:

Capacity building, hands-off security, and detainee releases all means that the average infantry Marine has been pretty bored this deployment, which is, of course, a good thing. The Marines, to a man, would rather be in Afghanistan a conflict they see as simpler than the legalistic, restrictive environment here. But they have done a terrific job at staying busy, conducting training, and staying active.