Bush, in a Shift, Accepts Concept of Iraq Timeline
new york times
19-Jul-2008 (one comment)

HOUSTON — President Bush agreed to “a general time horizon” for withdrawing American troops in Iraq, the White House announced Friday, in a concession that reflected both progress in stabilizing Iraq and the depth of political opposition to an open-ended military presence in Iraq and at home.

Mr. Bush, who has long derided timetables for troop withdrawals as dangerous, agreed to at least a notional one as part of the administration’s efforts to negotiate the terms for an American military presence in Iraq after a United Nations mandate expires at the end of the year.

The agreement, announced in coordinated statements released Friday by the White House and Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s government, reflected a significant shift in the war in Iraq. More than five years after the conflict began with the overthrow of >>>

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Yeah!! Yankee is about to Leave Iraq!!!

by Anonymous500 (not verified) on

Mr. or Ms. Mostaghel:

:-)) Khaab didi kheyr basheh!!

The US did not spend half a trillion US dollars to topple Saddam Hussesin and give the country to the cronies of the IRI in Iraq; you'd better wait before giving yourslef hope that the USA will allow IRI to gubble-up Iraq because Al-Mal-e KI (indeed, Mal-e Ki?) has asked the US to come up with this kind of troop withdrawl plan. Plan, shmelan, US forces are still stationed in Gernmany and Japan buddy! Wise up, don't get beguiled by these type of "bacheh-kharkooni" propaganda.