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To: TobagoJack who wrote (52913)7/30/2009 8:46:02 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217619
 
The USA is rapidly losing influence in Iraq. I think we could see an accelerated withdrawal...

U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’

By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Published: July 30, 2009

WASHINGTON — A senior American military adviser in Baghdad has concluded in an unusually blunt memo that the Iraqi forces suffer from deeply entrenched deficiencies but are now capable of protecting the Iraqi government, and that it is time “for the U.S. to declare victory and go home.”


nytimes.com