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Originally Posted by Texpat I read somewhere this week Iraq has reached satisfactory progress on 15 of 18 points of order necessary prior to assuming full control of their own security. |
I read this and may be the same you read. Still some debate in Congress over the degree to which the 15 points are completed but clearly progress has been made.
"Whether the new administration starts pulling troops out of Iraq right away, as Democratic presidential hopeful Barak Obama has promised, or refuses to set a timetable, per Republican John McCain's suggestion, most agree that a functional democracy in Iraq could still be years away because of the complexities of the issues involved and the deeply rooted distrust among the nation's sectarian groups.
"Iraq has the potential to develop into a stable, secure multiethnic, multi-sectarian democracy under the rule of law," Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq said in April when he last testified before Congress. "Whether it realizes that potential is ultimately up to the Iraqi people.""
The Associated Press: New Iraq report: 15 of 18 benchmarks satisfactory