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Cheney Says UK Withdrawal a Sign of Iraq Progress NewsMax.com Wires WASHINGTON -- A British timetable for beginning to withdraw its forces from Iraq was a sign of progress in the southern part of the country, Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday, despite unrelenting violence in Baghdad. "I look at it and what I see is an affirmation of the fact that in parts of Iraq ... things are going pretty well, " he said in an interview with ABC News in Japan, where the vice president was meeting with a key U.S. ally. Cheney said he had spoken to a friend who had made the trek from Baghdad to Basra recently and had "found the situation dramatically improved compared to where it was a year or so ago." The British planned withdrawal comes just as President Bush plans to send another 21,500 U.S. troops into Iraq to try to halt the violence in areas like Baghdad. British forces handed over command of the main Iraqi army unit in Basra to Iraqis on Tuesday. The move by the staunch Bush ally Britain could, however, embolden Democrats to boost pressure on Bush to set his own timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from the increasingly unpopular four-year war. Democrats in the House last week approved a symbolic, non-binding resolution opposing the troop increase. Story Continues Below
Cheney ridiculed Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and war critic Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, for their opposition to sending more U.S. forces into Iraq. "I think in fact if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we'll do is validate the al Qaeda strategy, the al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people," Cheney told ABC News. © Reuters 2007. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Editor's note: Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
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