mcclatchydc.com - 11/19/2008
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BAGHDAD The status of forces of agreement between the United States and Iraq is now called the withdrawal agreement, and that's exactly what it is: an ultimate end to the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. If Iraq's parliament endorses the agreement, in six weeks American forces would have to ...
mcclatchydc.com - 11/26/2008
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Iraqi legal jurisdiction over U.S. troops or military
contractors who kill Iraqis on operations. The agreement calls...
for Iraq to prosecute U.S. troops according to court procedures that have yet to be worked out. Those negotiations, administration ...
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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/25/2008 | U.S. staying ...
iht.com - 11/20/2008
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iht.com —
WASHINGTON: Pulling the U.S. military out of Iraq
would be a massive undertaking and would have to...
be done slowly and deliberately, defense officials said. One general said it would take up to 18 months to cut his troop levels in northern Iraq in ...
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U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would be a massive undertaking ...
tomdispatch.com - 11/21/2008
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tomdispatch.com —
[ Note to Readers: To listen to a
podcast of Tom Engelhardt discussing why he decided to...
write the following story on military resistance to withdrawal from Iraq, click here . ] Stuff Happens The Pentagon's Argument of Last Resort on Iraq By Tom ...
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Security Agreement Requires all US Troops Out of Iraq by 2011; Blocs in Parliament Maneuver to Defeat It
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McClatchy has published an English translation of the draft security agreement between the Iraqi government and the Bush administration. Leila Fadel of McClatchy's reads the agreement as calling for all US troops to be out of Iraq by the end of 2011: ' If Iraq's parliament endorses the agreement, in six weeks American forces would have to change the way they operate in Iraq, and all U.S. combat troops, police trainers and military advisers would have to leave the country by Dec. 31, 2011. President-elect Barack Obama's campaign plan to ...
SOFA Text?
Mudville Gazette —
... Assuming that McClatchy has provided an accurate translation (and honestly, the last paragraph quoted above makes no sense to me whatsoever) of the final version of the SOFA, and that it is approved by Iraq's parliament (perhaps today), then McClatchy's own analysis of the agreement is flawed: ...
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