NYT: BUSH Admin To Present NEW TIMETABLE For Security To Iraq

[kpete]

U.S. to Hand Iraq a New Timetable on Security Role
Bush admin drafting new timetable for security in Iraq

By DAVID S. CLOUD
Published: October 22, 2006
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 — The Bush administration is drafting a timetable for the Iraqi government to address sectarian divisions and assume a larger role in securing the country, senior American officials said.

On Baghdad Streets, a Police Partnership Falters (October 22, 2006) Details of the blueprint, which is to be presented to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki before the end of the year and would be carried out over the next year and beyond, are still being devised. But the officials said that for the first time Iraq was likely to be asked to agree to a schedule of specific milestones, like disarming sectarian militias, and to a broad set of other political, economic and military benchmarks intended to stabilize the country.

Although the plan would not threaten Mr. Maliki with a withdrawal of American troops, several officials said the Bush administration would consider changes in military strategy and other penalties if Iraq balked at adopting it or failed to meet critical benchmarks within it.

A senior Pentagon official involved in drafting the blueprint said that Iraqi officials were being consulted as the plan evolved and would be invited to sign off on the milestones before the end of the year. But he added, “If the Iraqis fail to come back to us on this, we would have to conduct a reassessment” of the American strategy in Iraq.

more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/world/middleeast/22policy.html?hp&ex=1161489600&en=28960a97f284e791&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[eleny]

1. Echoing Democrats

[malaise]

2. Bushco should STFU

every week they have some new plan and each one is worse than the one before. Bushco should get the fugg out of Iraq - they're responsible for more than enough deaths.

[tularetom]

3. Or what? We'll cut'n'run?

We invade their country, trash all cultural, social, political and security institutions and leave them with, basically, anarchy. Then we tell them YOU have to fix this mess we made of your country and you should be grateful because we got rid of Saddam for you.

[knowbody0]

6. we will never be able to make this up to them

I am so ashamed.

[SoCalDem]

4. A clever ad person would show clips where bush says

NO TIMETABLE, and then slap the bush image (maybe from the back) with a FLIP FLOP !!!

[pinto]

5. Wow, are they dancing around this one. Their war of terminology

is gonna bite 'em on the ass in Iraq, while so many continue to die. The only Republican plan I've seen so far is *call it something else*, *stay the course* or *look! Iran!*.

This is a debacle, by any other name.

[BootinUp]

7. Sounds like a bit of nasty nuance to me.

Real Murkins don't like nuanced foreign policy.

[Connie_Corleone]

8. Isn't this the Democrats "cut and run" strategy for Iraq??

Oh, NOW it's a good idea to set timetables. I see. :eyes:

[Mass]

9. More of the same BS - If there is no target withdrawal date

(at the very minimum), it means nothing!

[aquart]

10. Yup.

But they haven't a clue what to do and a tiger by the tail.

[Rose Siding]

11. LOL! By year's end, we get Iraq to agree to maybe help disarm enemies,

-sometime in the *future*? So basically the breakthrough is:


Calendars For Everyone!

WOO.....hoo?