British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced a partial withdrawal of British forces from Iraq. Blair says 1,600 troops will be pulled within the next few months with another 500 possibly in the summer. The announcement comes as Vice President Dick Cheney said today, “the American people will not support a policy of retreat.” Cheney was speaking aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier near Tokyo. The British pullout follows the Bush administration’s decision last month to send at least 21,000 more troops to Iraq.