The first comes from the Independent:
Sounds like a quagmire to me, man...
Iraq would descend into "hell" if Britain and the US started to withdraw troops before the end of the year, Iraq's Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, has said.
Mr Zebari told The Independent in an interview yesterday that foreign troops might be redeployed so they were outside the cities and less visible to Iraqis, but he did not think there would be a reduction in their number. "On the contrary, there might be a need for more troops," he said.
Mr Zebari is adamantly opposed to any withdrawal before a constitution determining relations between the Kurdish, Shia and Sunni communities is voted on in October and an election has taken place in December.
And the second comes from Yahoo News:
Major reductions in U.S. troop levels in Iraq next year appear increasingly likely, although Pentagon officials said Monday it is too early to predict the specific size and timing.Surely the coalition is crumbling!
That Yahoo piece has plenty of editorializing in it...and the appearance of at least one anonymous source to paint the story they wanted to report, but if you read the whole thing you will get the reality of the story: We're winning.
