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Titolo: Iraqi PM urges speedy withdrawal of US troops (The Guardian)

Pero' ci si rimane comunque: situazione pirandelliana...
Am.
Iraqi PM urges speedy withdrawal of US troops
Staff and agencies
Wednesday July 27, 2005
The Iraqi prime minister, Ibrahim Jaafari, today called for the speedy 
withdrawal of US troops from the country.
His comments came as the leading US commander in Iraq said he believed 
a "fairly substantial" pull-out could take place next spring and summer.
Both men's hopes were, however, dependent on the curbing of an 
insurgency that US military officials say shows no signs of abating. 
Insurgent attacks have claimed hundreds of lives in recent months.
Mr Jaafari, the transitional prime minister appointed after January's 
elections, made his call for a quick withdrawal at a joint news 
conference with the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, who was 
visiting Iraq.
Reuters quoted Mr Jaafari as saying it was the Iraqi people's "great 
desire" to see US-led forces leave and domestic forces take more 
responsibility.
Mr Rumsfeld said no exact timetable had been set but, speaking through 
a translator, said: "We confirm, and we desire, speed in that regard."
Earlier, General George Casey, the leading US military commander in 
Iraq, told reporters he believed a US troop withdrawal could begin by 
spring 2006.
However, he said expansion of the insurgency or political problems 
could hinder such a move.
The general made a similar prediction earlier this year - but the Iraqi 
insurgency worsened after Mr Jaafari's government took power in April.
In London, the prime minister, Tony Blair, said he had not seen Mr 
Jaafari's comments, but insisted that the UK's position on troops had 
not changed.
He said it was the long-standing policy for US and UK forces to stay 
while Iraqi forces were developed.
At a Downing Street press conference with his Spanish counterpart, Jose 
Luis Zapatero - who pulled Spanish troops out of Iraq last year - Mr 
Blair said: "It is the position of Britain, of America, of everybody, 
that as the Iraqi force capability builds, so the necessity for our 
support there diminishes.
"That is not a new announcement. That is the political strategy for us. 
As the Iraqi capability strengthens the whole time, there's less of a 
requirement for our forces to be there."
Mr Jaafari said there had to be a quickening of the pace of US training 
of Iraqi security forces, and proper coordination of any security 
transition with the US military and the Iraqi government.
"We do not want to be surprised by a withdrawal that is not in 
connection with our Iraqi timing," he said.
George Bush's administration has been under pressure after falling 
domestic support for US involvement in Iraq over recent months. Any 
form of troop pull-out would be likely to play well in public opinion 
polls.
In a major speech last month, the US president said he would withdraw 
forces as soon as Iraqis were prepared to take over security 
responsibility, but added that it would be dangerous to announce a 
timetable.
US senators subsequently demanded a set of benchmarks for assessing 
progress, calling for updates every 90 days.
Today's developments on troops come after a Pentagon report, 
declassified earlier this month, revealed that Iraqi government forces 
were nowhere near ready for battle.
The report said only a small number were capable of fighting the 
insurgency on their own.
The assessment - provided to the Senate by General Peter Pace, the 
newly appointed chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff - painted a 
stark picture of Iraqi military readiness that contrasted with the 
Pentagon's more upbeat official tone.
According to excerpts from the documents leaked to US newspapers in 
recent days, Gen Pace said around half of Iraq's new police battalions 
were still being established and were not in a position to conduct 
operations.
It also reportedly says the vetting of recruits to Iraq's police force 
is so poor that many who join up have criminal records, are barely 
literate or are actually members of the insurgency.
There are 138,000 US troops in Iraq, compared with a peak of 
around160,000 during the January elections.
According to Pentagon figures, there are 78,800 Iraqi troops and 94,100 
police and paramilitary police.
Another 100,000 are due to be trained by next summer, but US defence 
officials have so far resisted calls to assess their readiness for 
combat.
In other developments today, Massoud Barzani, the head of the Kurdistan 
Democratic party, said Iraqi Kurds would never back down from demands 
for a federal state.
He said they would not give up their fighters, despite problems this 
could create for efforts to draft a new constitution. The US is urging 
all sides to compromise in order for the document to be finished by the 
August 15 deadline.
In the latest violence, a roadside bombing killed four US soldiers in 
south-west Baghdad, the US command said yesterday.
Sixteen Iraqi government workers died in a hail of gunfire as they left 
work on the western edge of the capital.

 Pero' ci si rimane comunque: situazione pirandelliana...
Niente affatto.  Situazione normale di un paese che non e' ancora in
grado di reggersi da solo e che ha chiesto lui stesso alla forza
multinazionale di restare.
-Stefano

 Pero' ci si rimane comunque: situazione pirandelliana...
Volevi dire beckettiana... :)
Namib

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Bue e somaro, ma se e' il Primo Ministro a dire a Rumsfeld che si 
augura che gli americani si ritirino in fretta...
Certo c'e' sempre la possibilita' che stiano cercando le WMD e finche' 
non le trovano...
Ti evito la mia Risata di Distruzione di Massa (RDM).
Am.

Ti evito la mia Risata di Distruzione di Massa (RDM).
Grazie, *FESSO* :)
-Stefano

 Le hanno gia' trovate prima del conflitto :)
Caro Minchionide planetario  neocolonialista del tipo Mars Attacks,
 
Se leggi la stampa americana ti accorgerai che gli USA hanno 
l'intenzione di dimezzare le truppe entro un anno per motivi politici 
(sondaggi a picco), cosi' come le dichiarazioni del PM iracheno  sono 
politiche, per tenersi buona la popolazione,  che odia gli americani 
malgrado o a causa di un numero di attentati devastante, e delle 
infrastrutture colate a picco, dopo  dieci anni di sanzioni.
Noi servi degli americani abbiamo nel nostro piccolo un numero 
crescente di vittime di attentati e viviamo nella prospettiva del Big 
One, e tu ancora propagandi la versione chenon vogliamo lasciare 
'l'Iraq in Braghe di Tela'.
Sii piu' onesto e di che il nostro attuale governo di mafiosi e evasori 
fiscali ha paura di perdere la faccia e segue servilmente gli sforzi 
americani di non perdere la loro, perche' non ha la minima dignita' o 
autonomia. Aggiungi che dell'Iraq non gliene frega piu' nessuno ma solo 
di dove e quando avverra' il prossimo attentato e a ridosso di quali 
elezioni.
Grazie per avermi dato la possibilita' di esprimermi, Minchionide 
planetario  neocolonialista del tipo Mars Attacks
Am.

planetario  neocolonialista del tipo Mars Attacks
...disse quel *FESSO* di un Minchionide planetario neocolonialista del
tipo Mars Attacks... :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

 tipo Mars Attacks... :)
Notevole, mi hai preso in fallo  Minchionide planetario neocolonialista 
del tipo Mars Attacks... :)
Cmq. gli attentati di Madrid  erano sotto elezioni, e il video 
Jihadista su il Berlusca che piange non augura bene per le nostre di 
elezioni. Magari lo faranno piangere ancora, e noi con lui.
In USA la cosa e' andata male solo perche' Bin non e' riuscito ad 
avvelenare la cocaina in tempo per i festeggiamenti del second term.
Ti consiglio di ascoltare la  radio prima di berti un bicchier d'acqua 
di rubinetto, Minchionide planetario neocolonialista del tipo Mars 
Attacks...
Am.

di rubinetto,
La radio che dice che l'ACEA ha smentito la puttanata e che ha dato
adito ai suoi avvocati di querelare chiunque sia stato a diffondere tali
false notizie? :)
La radio che dice che la procura ha iniziato le indagini verso ignoti
per il reato di procurato allarme? :)
*LOL*
E' quella la "radio" di cui parli, *FESSO* di un Minchionide planetario
neocolonialista del tipo Mars Attacks... :)
-Stefano

 -Stefano
A me sinceramente sembri un po' in affanno Flavonoide Galattico 
Neocazzaro del tipo IE 511.
Cmq. non dire all'ACEA che sono stato io a mettere in giro la voce pur 
di imitarti nel prendersi a martellate nei cojoni.
Osama non ti aveva informato sulla cocaina affatturata? La  storia cmq. 
sta su 'La Repubblica' a p. 10 di oggi 27 Lu.
Quindi nel dubbio bevi pure l'acqua dell'ACEA,sopratutto nei paraggi 
dell'Ambasciata Americana, ma non pippare, mi raccomando. Non vorrei 
perdermi anzitempo un cosi' qualificato Flavonoide Galattico Neocazzaro 
del tipo IE 511.
Am.

Galattico Neocazzaro del tipo IE 511.
....disse il *FESSO* di un Minchionide planetario neocolonialista
Galattico Neocazzaro del tipo Mars Attacks ormai gia' andato anzitempo a
causa della cocaina... :)
*LOL*
-Stefano