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Greatscat! —
BAGHDAD -- U.S. and Iraqi negotiators reached agreement on a security deal that calls for American military forces to leave Iraq's cities by next summer as a prelude to a full withdrawal from the country, according to senior American officials. The draft agreement sets 2011 as the date by which all remaining U.S. troops will leave Iraq, according to Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Haj Humood and other people familiar with the matter. Teams of American and Iraqi negotiators spent months haggling over the deal, which represents a remarkable turnaround from just a few ...
First Stop: The Grand Canyon
Taylor Marsh —
BY TAYLOR MARSH
News item of the morning comes from the WSJ U.S., Iraq Are Said to Have Set
Withdrawal Timetable: ...
All Sorts of Appeasing Going On
Balloon Juice —
Right here:
U.S. and Iraqi negotiators reached agreement on a security deal that calls for American military forces to leave Iraq’s cities by next summer as a prelude to a full withdrawal of combat troops from the country, according to senior American officials.
The draft agreement sets 2011 as the goal date by which U.S. combat troops will leave Iraq, according to Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Haj Humood and other people familiar with the matter. In the meantime, American troops will be leaving cities, towns and other ...
I Hate It Here, Get Me Out Of Here
Firedoglake —
... George W. Bush on May 1, 2007 -- an out-of-options Bush may be about to capitulate to a 2011 withdrawal of combat troops, according to the Wall Street Journal. ...
Iraq Deal: Good News, Bad News, Good News
The Moderate Voice —
... Once I am able to get past the immorality of the Iraq war, as well as the carnage in human lives and its devastating impact on stability in the Mideast and the American economy (and that ain’t easy), the tentative troop withdrawal agreement reached between Baghdad and Washington is good news for Barack Obama. ...
Proposed U.S. withdrawal plan ‘is right out of’ CAP’s Strategic Redeployment plan.
Think Progress —
... The Wall Street Journal reports today that “U.S. and Iraqi negotiators reached agreement on a security deal that calls for American military forces to leave Iraq’s cities by next summer as a prelude to a full withdrawal of combat troops from the country” by 2011. Declaring that the deal means “ ...
Bush Moves To Remove Iraq From The Campaign By... Adopting Obama's Position-- McCain Too Busy Counting His Homes To Realize
DownWithTyranny! —
... This morning's Wall Street Journal goes a little further than the cautious Times in terms of how the Bush Regime is trying to remove Iraq as a campaign issue without flat-out admitting that they lost the war. ...
Key Iraq Strategy in Peril?
The Moderate Voice —
... Just as it seems that the Bush administration is on the point of signing off on that draft security agreement with the Iraqi government (WSJ), there are disturbing allegations that a cornerstone of the surge—the success of the “awakening groups”—may be on the point of collapse ( ...
Report: White House pushing ’secret deal’ to ‘keep Iraq under U.S. control.’
Think Progress —
Despite public pronouncements last month that Iraqi and U.S. negotiators had reached an agreement on a withdrawal timetable, The Independent reports “a secret deal” is being not discussed in Baghdad that “would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely.” The terms of the impending deal, according to Patrick Cockburn, include provisions that would allow U.S. troops to occupy permanent bases, “conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law.” “The Iraqi ...
