Word: drawdowns
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...offer support to the Iraqi army and police for the foreseeable future. That arrangement risks leaving U.S. troops providing military support to Iraqi security forces who may or may not adhere to human-rights norms when facing a probable rise in violence in the wake of the U.S. drawdown...
...coming months as U.S. forces fade from the streets of major cities across Iraq as part of a U.S.-Iraqi agreement calling for American troops to be off the streets of urban areas by June. U.S. military officials have warned that sectarian violence is likely to rise as the drawdown goes forward. Whether the Mahdi Army will reconsider its cease-fire then is a question Sadr's followers say only the reclusive cleric himself can answer...
...Word of the new White House drawdown plan, which Obama officially announced on Friday morning in a speech at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, was greeted with shrugs of contentment by most Iraqi political figures, largely because the Obama plan appears to be in step with what Iraqis had expected as a result of the Status of Forces Agreement signed by the Maliki government and the Bush Administration last December. That agreement requires most U.S. combat troops to be off the streets of Iraq by this summer and all U.S. troops to have left the country by 2011. (See pictures...
...workings of the Executive Branch, even when his own party has been in power. (He was one of the more openly skeptical Republican voices on Capitol Hill regarding the Bush Administration's plans for post-war Iraq, and was an early and influential voice in planning a troop drawdown.) Lugar raised his concerns while assuring Clinton of his enthusiastic support for her confirmation - though he publicly warned his old friend from the Senate of a potential pitfall on her path. "The only certain way to eliminate this risk going forward is for the Clinton Foundation to forswear new foreign contributions...
...withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Somalia is a gamble not unlike America's planned drawdown from Iraq...