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Robin Cook of the Guardian on the Administration's plans to withdraw from Iraq (like the Downing Street Memo, a topic that's getting more play abroad than here in the U.S.):

The timing of the original invasion was dictated not by the reports on the UN weapons inspections but by the momentum of the US military build-up. Now the timing of the exit from occupation is going to be determined not by progress in restoring security in Iraq but by the date of next year's mid-term congressional elections in the US.