Reading the Washington Post, doesn’t it sound a bit like they’re going to just re-serve current policy?
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…
But…
The call to pull out combat brigades by early 2008 would be more a
conditional goal than a firm timetable, predicated on the assumption
that circumstances on the ground would permit it…
And…
The panel included a significant caveat for the 2008 goal for troop
withdrawals by recommending that commanders should plan to pull out
combat units by then unless “unexpected developments” make them decide
that such a move would be unwise, the sources said.





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