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Crs Report for Congress - Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security: December 17, 2008 - Rl31339 (Paperback)
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Crs Report for Congress - Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security: December 17, 2008 - Rl31339 (Paperback)
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The Bush Administration has claimed substantial success in
significantly reducing violence in Iraq as a result of the ?troop
surge? announced by President Bush on January 10, 2007 (?New Way
Forward?). With the 28,500 ?surge? forces withdrawn as of July
2008, Defense Department reports assess that overall violence is
down as much as 80% since early 2007, to levels not seen since
2004. President-elect Obama has indicated that stabilizing
Afghanistan should be a higher priority for the United States than
Iraq, but U.S. commanders say that progress in Iraq is ?fragile and
tenuous? and could be jeopardized by a too rapid draw-down. They
recommend measured, incremental ?conditions-based? reductions in
U.S. forces and continued building of Iraq's security forces, until
further political progress produces a unified, democratic Iraq that
can govern and defend itself and is an ally in the war on terror. A
U.S.-Iraq status of forces agreement (SOFA), ratified by Iraq's
parliament on November 27, 2008, mandates a U.S. withdrawal by the
end of 2011, although President-elect Obama has said a ?residual
presence? of U.S. forces might be needed beyond that time. On the
political front, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is increasingly seen
by the U.S. government, the Iraqi ...
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