Peoples Daily
July 31, or last Thursday, was the deadline put forward last November by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and US President George W. Bush, but the United States and Iraq have failed to meet the long-term agreement deadline as scheduled. The U.S.-Iraq accord negotiations, nevertheless, reached an impasse because of their serious disparities over the status of American forces stationed in Iraq, the withdrawal timetable and numerous other related issues.
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Stalemate in U.S.-Iraq talks hard to unlock
Posted by smeddum on August 4, 2008
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For first time, Bush agrees to ‘time horizon’ for Iraq pullout
Posted by smeddum on July 19, 2008
By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The United States and Iraq have agreed to a “general time horizon” for further reductions of U.S. combat troops in Iraq, the White House said Friday, the first time the Bush administration has agreed to set any kind of timeline for troop withdrawals. Read the rest of this entry »
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Bipartisan approach to US Iraq withdrawal emerging
Posted by seumasach on July 9, 2008
Bipartisanship(Missing Links)
9th July, 2008
AlHayat this morning sums up this way
The negotiations between Iraq and the US have reached a ticklish stage with the disagreement having been made public: Baghdad is insisting on a schedule for the withdrawal of the forces, and rejects immunity from Iraqi law [for the US forces]; while Washington says it is not opposed to a temporal framework [probably “timeframe” is the Washingtonese] for the operation (of withdrawal) and it links the operation to circumstances on the ground.
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