Rice says US-Iraq coming together on timetables

[denverbill]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday that U.S. and Iraqi officials agree that timetables should be set for a U.S. troop withdrawal, but conceded that nailing down a broader pact on future relations is difficult.

Appearing together at a news conference, Rice and Zebari also mutually asserted that a final agreement between Washington and Baghdad on a a broad document spelling out the nature of any future U.S. troop presence and Washington-Baghdad relations is close to fruition, but not yet complete.

"We have agreed that some goals, some aspirational timetables for how that might unfold, are well worth having in such an agreement," Rice told reporters after meeting with Iraqi officials, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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With apologies to Bob Boudelang, "it's not a timetable, so stop calling it that."

I guess the terrorists must have won.

[Phred42]

1. TIMETABLES!? Condi said the "T" word

[Swagman]

2. Confusion Rice

[Felix Mala]

3. Bush is too willing to lose a war in order to win a legacy... N/T

[lib2DaBone]

4. Troops are staying right there in Iraq....

..This is all window dressing pre-RNC Convention. The Grand Oil Party has no intentions of bringing any of our service people home from the 146 countries around the globe. Ya, sure.. America will buy this PR Stunt.

[Supersedeas]

5. didn't they threaten a veto, withholding funding to the troops, b/c of timetables!!

[alstephenson]

6. They're called 'time horizons" now.

The latest buzz word.

[ogneopasno]

7. How awful! I know timetables are a bad thing,

so this must be really bad news.