Powell Says U.S. Losing in Iraq, Calls for Drawdown by Mid-2007
123474
Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said yesterday that the United States is losing what he described as a "civil war" in Iraq and that he is not persuaded that an increase in U.S. troops there would reverse the situation. Instead, he called for a new strategy that would relinquish...
534500
WASHINGTON : US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned that the insurgency in Iraq was &quot;getting worse&quot; and could hinder the organization of Iraqi elections planned for January.
459075
One day after President Bush announced a limited drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq by next summer, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday that it might be possible to reduce U.S. forces there further over the course of next year, down to approximately 100,000 troops by the end of 2008.
300646
In a report to be released today, a panel of experts assembled by the U.S. Institute of Peace calls for a 50 percent reduction in U.S. forces in Iraq within three years and a total withdrawal and handover of security to the Iraqi military in five years.
63845
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he sees the situation in Iraq âgetting worseâ as planned elections approach. And the top US military commander for Iraq says he expects more violence in the months ahead.
51202
The United States should begin to withdraw forces from combat and launch a diplomatic push, including with Iran and Syria, to prevent "a slide toward chaos" in Iraq, an elite panel recommended on Wednesday.
157907
Washington is pressing neighboring countries to persuade Sunnis in Iraq to vote in next month's elections, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday, the same day the top party from the minority group withdrew from the ballot.
690000
Unlike his boss (George Bush), who claims Iraq is making steady progress towards the election next year, the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, admits that the violence in Iraq is getting worse.
615225
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has made a plea for Europe to reconcile with the United States after their bitter division over the US-led war in Iraq.
673586
A U.S. intelligence report prepared  for President Bush in July offered a gloomy outlook for Iraq  through the end of 2005, with the worst scenario being a  deterioration into civil war, a U.S. government official said  on Thursday.
56714
The independent, bipartisan panel studying U.S. policy in Iraq has unanimously agreed to a report that will call for a gradual pullback of American combat troops in Iraq but stops short of setting a firm timetable for withdrawal, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
79191
Washington, Sept. 27 (NNN): Even as he admitted that the conflict between American forces and insurgents in Iraq is getting worse, US Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has asserted that Washington was determined
60537
Foreign troop levels in Iraq could drop to less than 100,000 by the end of 2008 if Iraq's own forces were ready and security threats had diminished, Iraq's national security adviser said on Wednesday.
204692
The United States has sought to put a positive angle on its closest ally Britain&#x2019;s plan to pull its 7,100 troops out of Iraq nearly four years after the war&#x2019;s start.Comment
486535
President George W. Bush on Thursday said 5,700 U.S. troops would come home from Iraq by the end of this year, followed by a gradual pullback through July 2008.
378385
It could be next spring before U.S. troops in Iraq can hand over areas gained in their latest offensive to Iraqi forces and start to draw down, a top American commander said on Friday.
481330
Secretary of State Colin Powell told President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair last month that there were too few troops in Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Friday.