...continue to resonate among voters and I'm sure his campaign will repeat it over and over and in many variations.
As for your suggested statement, I guess that has been based on what Bush ordered back in late April 2003 after we had invaded Iraq:
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Last Updated: Tuesday, 29 April, 2003, 15:16 GMT 16:16 UK
US pulls out of Saudi Arabia The US was not allowed to carry out air strikes from Saudi Arabia. The United States has said that virtually all its troops, except some training personnel, are to be pulled out of Saudi Arabia.
The decision was confirmed by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a joint news conference with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan.
Both men stressed that there were no differences between their countries and their co-operation would continue.
Ever since the 1991 Gulf war, the US has had about 5,000 troops stationed in Saudi Arabia - a figure that rose to 10,000 during the recent conflict in Iraq.
<see insert> This does not mean we have requested them to move, Prince Sultan, Saudi Defence Minister US-Saudi 'uneasy' ties
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The BBC's Middle East analyst Roger Hardy says this is a strategic shift of great political as well as military significance.
Technically US troops there have been part of Operation Southern Watch, which has enforced the no-fly zone over southern Iraq set up after 1991.
But our correspondent says the US troops have become a potent symbol of Washington's role in the region, and many Saudis see them as proof of the country's subservience to America.
Saudi Arabia is home to some of Islam's holiest sites and the deployment of US forces there was seen as a historic betrayal by many Islamists, notably Osama Bin Laden.
Bin Laden used American presence to justify anti-US attacks
It is one of the main reasons given by the Saudi-born dissident - blamed by Washington for the 11 September attacks - to justify violence against the United States and its allies.
But news of the US pull-out does not mean the campaign is over for Bin Laden and his followers, according to the BBC's Arab affairs analyst Magdi Abdelhadi.
Their agenda now goes beyond the boundaries of one country, he says. Their goal is to liberate all Muslim societies from foreign troops and what they see as ungodly secular rulers.
The al-Qaeda leader was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991 because of his anti-government activities.
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