DebateGate
General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: BT on December 01, 2006, 02:03:07 AM
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Here comes that new direction:
The bipartisan Iraq Study Group reached a consensus on Wednesday on a final report that will call for a gradual pullback of the 15 American combat brigades now in Iraq but stop short of setting a firm timetable for their withdrawal, according to people familiar with the panel’s deliberations.
The report, unanimously approved by the 10-member panel, led by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, is to be delivered to President Bush next week. It is a compromise between distinct paths that the group has debated since March, avoiding a specific timetable, which has been opposed by Mr. Bush, but making it clear that the American troop commitment should not be open-ended. The recommendations of the group, formed at the request of members of Congress, are nonbinding.
That sounds like a 360-degree about face to me.
Meanwhile:
The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday unanimously renewed the mandate of the U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq through the end of 2007, granting a request from the Baghdad government.
More at: http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/007230.html
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Thursday that his country's forces would be able to assume security command by June 2007 -- which could allow the United States to start withdrawing its troops.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-30T180019Z_01_N30183040_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ-MALIKI-FORCES.xml&WTmodLoc=World-C1-Headline-2
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I wonder if something was worked out with Acmaninajadd?