Iraqi President Predicts Iraqi Forces Taking Over Security By Year's End

Reports the Communist News Netwrok, CNN:

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday he foresees Iraqi forces taking over security in all 18 Iraqi provinces by the end of the year.

Talabani, who was speaking at a news conference, said the transition will be gradual and multinational forces will be playing a supportive role to the Iraqi troops.

"The role of the multinational forces is a role to help the Iraqi armed forces, and, God willing, the Iraqi armed forces will at the end of the year take over all of the security in all the Iraqi provinces, little by little, gradually, and, God willing, we will be in a position to do that," he said.

Also, he said, "we have optimism that we will eliminate terrorism."

That would be great if we could be out of there by year's end, let's just make sure we get the job done first; eliminating most terrorist cells and training the Iraqis to defend themselves. If we wanted to cut and run we would have elected a Democrat. Oh wait, they were offered the chance to pull out and they all voted against it.