violence in iraq

With a start date of June 30, 2009 no less!

From AP:

The negotiations over a withdrawal timetable follow long insistence by President Bush that setting any schedule for U.S. troops to leave would be dangerous.

The draft agreement with Iraq would link troop reductions to achievement of certain security milestones, although the details have not been made public.

Maybe…

From NY Times:

Mr.

Obama, who spoke to the Iraqi foreign minister [Hoshyar Zebari] by telephone this morning, said he was “encouraged” by the reductions in violence in Iraq.

But he said the United States still must begin gradually withdrawing troops, at a pace of one to two brigades a month, with a goal of removing most combat troops in 16 months.

I think yes.

McCain thinks no.

First, his side…

Now, mine…

They looked through more than 600,000 of the regime’s documents and have found nothing.

I repeat…they have found absolutely no evidence whatsoever of operational ties to al Qaeda.

Several recent bombings in Iraq have been blamed on al-Qaida in Iraq. However, the U.S. military in Baghdad says that deadly bombings do not indicate an upsurge in violence in Iraq.

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AP - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has threatened to lift by the end of the week a six-month cease-fire widely credited with helping reduce violence in Iraq, officials said Wednesday.