U.S. Army Spc. Robert Huth, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, Fort Carson, Colo., and an Iraqi soldier secure the area while delivering a generator to a locksmith in Karama, a neighborhood in Mosul, Iraq, on Dec. 3, 2008. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. JoAnn S. Makinano, U.S. Air Force. (Released)U.S. To Decide In Weeks, "Not Months" On Iraq Troop Cuts -- Boston.com/Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will make a decision in weeks, not "days or months," on cutting U.S. troop levels in Iraq, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.
Obama has pledged to pull out all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months, while shifting thousands of soldiers to Afghanistan, which he has called the central front in the U.S.-declared war on terror.
"We are aggressively working Iraq and we expect a set of decisions on the responsible drawdown forthwith -- not within days or months, but weeks," the administration official told Reuters.
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My Comment: Even though the U.S. has an agreement with Iraq on troop withdrawals .... I expect this to be thrown out of the window. U.S. soldiers are going to be leaving Iraq much sooner than later.
