Democrats have a goal of getting us out of Iraq by the next election.
General Raymond Odierno has prepared an analysis for General Petraeus that calls for maintaining the surge at least until February 2008 before determining whether any troops can been withdrawn.
To do this, it will require Bush to send National Guard units from the states to maintain troop levels because the regular military has already been stretched too thin for this extended duty. This will also mean that the Iraq war will still be front and center during the summer of 2008. But the end of our Iraq commitment may be in sight. General Petraeus said this morning that his counterinsurgency plan needs an internal political component for it to work, and that the US needs to talk with insurgent groups on a solution.
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