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Iraq May Pass Schedule for Withdrawal of All US TroopsAnother sign of victory. The Iraqis have never wanted a foreign army on their soil -- who would? -- but of course needed one. raqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki raised the prospect on Monday of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops as part of negotiations over a new security agreement with Washington. The left will spin this as Maliki embracing their surrender-at-all-costs agenda, but of course it doesn't. What made this possible? Victory over Al Qaeda, al-Sadr, and other extremists. And it's not like conservatives want US troops in foreign lands just for grins and goofs. We also want the troops home -- after the crucial war is won. And we're just about there: * Al Qaeda driven from last stronghold in Mosul. n Mosul, Al-Qaeda’s last redoubt, the group still held sway as recently as Easter. Now it lacks the strength to fight the army face to face and has lost the sympathy of most of the ordinary citizens who once admired its stand against the occupying forces and their allies in the Iraqi army. The article goes on to describe the tactics that have driven Al Qaeda out. * "Spectacular victory" in Mosul. American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror. * Maliki declares the terrorist siege of Baghdad has been lifted, and city saved. "When we took over Baghdad it was under siege, with all roads leading to neighbouring provinces controlled by terrorists. They had surrounded Baghdad from all sides, backed by the bad intentions of other countries," Maliki told a gathering of top Iraqi and US officials including Washington's envoy to Baghdad Ryan Crocker. * Al-Sadr continues with program of downsizing and corporate restructuring, two things healthy companies don't typically do. Over the space of several days in early June, Muqtada al Sadr has issued two consequential orders that will affect the future of his movement and that of Iraq. Sadr has ordered the reorganization of his infamous Mahdi Army and has forbidden the Sadrist movement from participating in the upcoming provincial elections. Al-Sadr seems to have given up on actually winning anything, and now seems focused on merely surviving. The domestic political effect of this amazing victory is, ironically, mostly to the benefit of one Barack Hussein Obama. Kaus notes that a stable Iraq makes President McCain less necessary, and President Obama less risky. Abe Greenwald from Commentary agrees: In February, John McCain said that if he could not convince the American public that the U.S. was winning the Iraq War, he would not make it into the White House. He was exactly wrong. As unfair as that is, McCain punished for being right and firm, Obama rewarded for being wrong and pandering, there are no conservatives rooting for an Al Qaeda resurgence just to aid the Republicans in November. Liberal Democrats ought to take some notice of that, and learn from the example.
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