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...have signaled an (albeit reluctant) acceptance that the U.S. departure will come years sooner rather than decades later. Many Iraqis, however, think they should stick with their original positions: "It's too early to withdraw because security is not fully established yet. I'm a refugee from Amariya [a Sunni insurgent stronghold in Baghdad] and I can't go back there yet," says Leila Mohammed...
...Some Iraqi politicians have welcomed the visit as an opportunity, regardless of whether Obama wins in November. "I think it's a very important visit," Kurdish MP Tanya Gilly told TIME. "As a Senator he should see the situation on the ground so that he can better understand [Iraq]." Sunni MP Ayad al-Samarai of the National Accordance Front says: "It will be good for him to get to know each leader, hear their thoughts and see how each side is thinking...
...country accrued under former dictator Saddam Hussein. With Jordan appointing an ambassador to Iraq last week and Kuwait and Bahrain saying they are soon to follow, the U.A.E.'s announcement is being seen in Baghdad and Washington as evidence of warming relations between Shi'ite Iraq and its Sunni neighbors...
...agreement but secretly against it," says al-Mashhadanni. "They came to power because of an agreement with the multinational forces, and they [have to] thank them for that. But the [long-term] presence of the multinational force will affect their [popular, nationalist] position." (Al-Mashhadanni's own party, the Sunni Tawafuq bloc, has the reverse problem; according to al-Mashhadanni, it secretly wants a long-term SOFA agreement - to balance Shi'ite power with a mediating U.S. presence - but has to publicly oppose it because of his party's platform against the presence of foreign troops in Iraq...
Though a sense of calm has settled across some rural areas, where Sunni Awakening Groups have chased out insurgents, many Iraqis fear it's only temporary. And the Sadrists, who have so far cooperated in Maliki's Amara campaign, say their relationship with the government is still far from friendly...