US and UK forces out of Iraq by Spring '07

It sure is good to know we're going to make so much progress in Iraq over the next year.

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States and Britain are planning to pull all their troops out of Iraq by the spring of 2007, two British newspapers reported in their Sunday editions, quoting unnamed senior defense ministry sources.

I don't believe this necessarily, but I await seeing the Bush administration having to answer questions about it, having to argue that we should keep our troops in Iraq. With the polls where they are, and Iraq falling apart, that's going to be a very tough political battle to win. It will highlight the lack of progress thus far and force the question, "under what circumstances will you pull out troops."

It's another anchor being thrown at them.

(The two papers sourcing this are the Telegraph and Mirror. I don't know if they're corporately related.)

Also: Just interesting at this point. The Pat Tillman myth/coverup is coming back into the mainstream as well. Notice the word "criminal." Curious, eh?

The Army said Saturday it will launch a criminal investigation into the April 2004 death of Pat Tillman, the former professional football player who was shot to death by fellow soldiers in Afghanistan in what previous Army reviews had concluded was an accidental shooting.

Col. Joseph Curtin, an Army spokesman, said the Defense Department office of inspector general had reviewed the matter at the Army's request and concluded that a criminal probe was warranted.