Next Six Months Critical In Iraq

How does Bushco become a laughing stock throughout the world? Well this probably helps:

General George Casey, head of US forces in Iraq, has joined the long list of those to have warned that the next six months will be critical for the country ... over the past three-and-a-half years.

The tradition began in February 2003 when US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in a now much mocked prediction, told soldiers based in Europe that the Iraq war "could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

Three years and eight months later, 2,700 American troops have been killed and 142,000 are still deployed in an increasingly violent Iraq, where officials are nevertheless still talking in terms of a six month turnaround.

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