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Originally Posted by spanno
the country is disintegrating into total civil war whats plan B?
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Nothing quite like progress spanno
The good news is they have now found the awaited plan B...
...blame it on Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6078532.stm
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US says Iraq must improve policy
Iraq must take more responsibility on security and political issues, a senior White House adviser has said.
Dan Bartlett said that Baghdad needed to "take a step forward on very difficult issues".
He said "benchmarks and milestones" would be used to track Iraq's progress, but these were not linked to deadlines or threats to withdraw troops.
The remarks follow growing calls from senior officials and politicians for US and British troops to be withdrawn.
Mr Bartlett also said that White House thinking had never been properly described by the phrase "stay the course".
"What we aren't doing is sitting there with our heads in the sand," he said.
"It is important that the Iraqi government take a step forward on very difficult issues, both on the security front and on the political front," he said.
He told Fox News the US strategy must be to press Iraq to take more responsibility but to do so in a way that did not weaken the new government.
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And "we" are going to use "benchmarks and milestones" and give you a gold star if you are good boys - awesome concept
