Iraq Panel to Urge Pullout Of Combat Troops by '08
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The bipartisan Iraq Study Group plans to recommend withdrawing nearly all U.S. combat units from Iraq by early 2008 while leaving behind troops to train, advise and support the Iraqis, setting the first goal for a major drawdown of U.S. forces, sources familiar with the proposal said yesterday.
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Incoming Democratic committee chairmen say they will hold a series of hearings and investigations early next year to build the case for their call for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and for possible action against defense contractors found to have wasted billions in federal funds.
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Baghdad was rocked by mortar fire and a suicide bombing on Wednesday, hours before the planned release a U.S. panel report expected to propose that U.S. forces withdraw from combat over the next year.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces will need another year to 18 months before they can take over from American troops, the top US commander in Iraq, General George W. Casey Jr., said yesterday.
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Bloomberg - Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is calling for the U.S. to pull all combat troops out of Iraq by the end of next year, saying there is no military solution to the conflict.
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A weary and sharply divided U.S. Senate headed on Wednesday toward a showdown vote on an apparently doomed Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of April 2008.
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US commander in Iraq to launch new drive to defer any exit of troops until April 2008.
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Poland should withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of next year, Polish leaders said Monday, the first time the key US ally has indicated
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The United States should begin to withdraw forces from combat and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to prevent "a slide toward chaos" in Iraq, an elite panel recommended on Wednesday.
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The United States should start to  withdraw militarily and politically from Iraq and aim to pull  out all troops as early as possible next year, Sen. Edward  Kennedy said on Thursday.
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The Iraq Study Group will recommend that the U.S. military shift from a combat role to a support role in Iraq roughly over the next year, a source familiar with the panel's deliberations said.
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WASHINGTON -- Last month, Congress set a deadline for the American commander in Iraq, declaring that by Sept. 15 he would have to assess progress there before billions more dollars are approved to finance the military effort to stabilize the country. The commander, General David H. Petraeus, said in recent days that his report would only be a snapshot of ...
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Army Gen. David H. Petraeus has indicated a willingness to consider a drawdown of one brigade of between 3,500 and 4,500 U.S. troops from Iraq early next year, with more to follow over the next months based on conditions on the ground, according to a senior U.S. official.
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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.
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An influential bipartisan panel is expected to recommend on Wednesday that U.S. forces withdraw from combat over the next year and focus on training Iraqis, offering President George W. Bush the outlines of an exit strategy from the unpopular war.
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A new think tank run by former U.S. defense officials has published a detailed plan that would have the United States withdraw from Iraq in phases, beginning next month and ending in 2012.
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In a report to be released Sunday, 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.