Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's call for a timetable on American troop withdrawals has touched off a dramatic change in the debate over the future U.S. engagement in Iraq - essentially, it marks a falling away of the fig-leaf rationales for the five-plus years of occupation. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.