So it’s come to this.
McClatchy’s Leila Fadel reports that Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, is telling the obstinate Maliki government that unless it signs a Status of Forces Agreement with the U.S. before the end of the year, the U.S. is going More…
My colleague Matt DeLong caught Sen. John McCain’s interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and passed along a quick discussion about the U.S.-Iraq basing deal that calls for a total withdrawal of all U.S. forces by Dec. 31, 2011. Long story short: Either McCain hasn’t read the latest text or More…
This caught me flat-footed: Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, just sent out a statement expressing concern over a U.S.-Iraq status-of-forces agreement, which I thought wasn’t finished yet.
Last I heard, the pitfall-filled accord had deadlocked and negotiators were in a state of controlled panic, More…
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