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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8847)	12/5/2006 10:47:04 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224720

More progress:Iraqi forces may take control by mid-2007, general says The Associated Press, Dec 05, 2006 BAGHDAD — The U.S. military expects all of Iraq to be under the control of Iraqi forces by mid-2007, the top American military spokesman in the country said Tuesday. “We would expect to see the entire country having reached provincial Iraqi control by early fall of next year,” Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said at a news conference. “We should see the complete transfer of command and control of all Iraqi army divisions by late spring, early summer.” He said this is part of an accelerated timetable discussed by President Bush and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki during their summit in Jordan last week. The U.S. maintains about 140,000 troops in Iraq and is now considering changing its strategic course in the country, which the U.S.-led coalition invaded in March 2003. Currently, the U.S.-led coalition has a process under way whose aim is to give the governors of Iraq’s 18 provinces complete control over their governments and all their services, including police. Under that system, if violence developed that local police could not handle, a governor could request help from national police or the Iraqi army. To get coalition forces involved, a governor would need to receive the permission of Iraq’s prime minister. Only two provinces have gone through that process so far, Muthanna and Dhi Qar, both located in the relatively peaceful south of Iraq where British forces are based. Presently, Iraq has 10 divisions of soldiers, seven controlled by U.S. forces and three by Iraq’s central government. A major goal of the U.S. military is to adequately train and equip all the Iraqi soldiers that the country needs and to fully transfer the command and control of all of them to Iraq’s central government.