On Monday, a letter to the United Nations from Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al Jafaari requested that the U.S. led coalition be given a mandate for another year in Iraq. The current mandate is scheduled to expire at the end of this year, and extending it through 2006 will require a Security Council resolution some time in the next eight weeks. The Iraqi government is also pushing for a clause that would allow them to terminate the mandate at any point during 2006.
At 10,000 trained Iraqi Police/month, in 8 months we'll have met the original goal of 240,000 Iraqi Police in Iraq. That would be a good time for us to leave...
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