BAGHDAD — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to reassure nervous Iraqis that the U.S. won’t abandon them, even as she said the American troop withdrawal would stay on schedule despite a recent surge in violence.
On her first visit to Baghdad as chief U.S. diplomat, Clinton said Saturday that Washington remains committed to moving U.S. soldiers out of urban areas by June 30 and pulling out combat troops from the country by 2011.
"Our strategy in working with you may be in a new phase, but we pledge our full and continuing commitment to Iraq and the Iraqi people,” she said after meeting Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
Suicide bombings Thursday and Friday killed more than 150 people. But she said the attacks "do not reflect any diversion from security progress.”
by the associated press
On her first visit to Baghdad as chief U.S. diplomat, Clinton said Saturday that Washington remains committed to moving U.S. soldiers out of urban areas by June 30 and pulling out combat troops from the country by 2011.
"Our strategy in working with you may be in a new phase, but we pledge our full and continuing commitment to Iraq and the Iraqi people,” she said after meeting Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
Suicide bombings Thursday and Friday killed more than 150 people. But she said the attacks "do not reflect any diversion from security progress.”
by the associated press
