HOUSTON — President Bush agreed to “a general time horizon” for withdrawing American troops in Iraq [1], 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 [2] 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 [3]’s government, reflected a ... >>>
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