Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Removing American Troops in Baghdad?



Since the war began in 2003 4,147 U.S military personnel have died in Iraq. Baghdad’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wants U.S troops out of Iraq by 2011. Al-Maliki knows that they can come up with a compromise to remove the troops. The U.S on the other hand wants to continue training and advising Iraq's security. Even though the White House and Iraq have not made a decision yet.

The White House spokesman Tony Fratto said he really wants Iraq and the U.S to reach a mutual agreement on flexible goals, but President George W. Bush wants to keep playing guessing games. President Bush has stated that he wants to set a “General time horizon” which means that a date is not actually set. The Prime Minister Al-Maliki doesn’t agree with that term in fact he dislikes the term “General Time Horizon” because he does not have an exact time when the troops will be removed.

The U.S and Iraq have worked on a date to remove American Combat Troops from Baghdad. They has slightly consider June 2009. But the U.S is very frustrated with the Iraqi officials because they consider negotiation really difficult to make. They have to go through at least 275 members in parliament. Part of the parliament is against finding an agreement.

Hopefully the U.S and Iraq find a compromise and remove the troops in Iraq because we really need to save soldiers lives. In general the war should completely end.

1 comment:

Laura Castillo said...

I agree with you and who ever thinks American troops need to come back home. I also agree that they have been there to long. If they have not yet gotten anything resolved troops should just come back. Besides the U.S has many problems of its own they should come and solve all of these first.