Elections in Iraq next Year

The Times: Reports that political parties in Iraq have come to an agreement for the framework of the elections next year. As noted by the Times the Iraqi elections were in doubt due to the political wrangles in Baghdad, now we have a framework for those elections, this follows the agreement between Iraq and the USA for the withdrawal of troops from the cities and for all combat troops to leave by August 2010. The USA will still be in Iraq, there will be around fifty thousand trainers to train the Iraqi Army and Security Forces, these trainers will leave at the end of 2011. It would be ironic if the sole Foreign Policy success of the Obama Administration was an agreement already singed by Bush 43 and Iraq in 2008. At least Obama didn't lose Iraq, and as posted yesterday he is sending another thirty four thousand troops to Afghanistan, lets see if Afghanistan can be the success that Iraq has turned out to be for US Foreign Policy.