Iraq's presidency council approved the U.S.-Iraq security agreement today. The three-member council- including the Kurdish president, the Shiite Vice President, and the Sunni Vice President- approved the agreement unanimously, just one week after the Iraqi parliament passed the measure.
The pact allows the presence of American troops in Iraq for three more years and sets the official deadline for all U.S. combat troops to withdraw from Iraq at June 30, 2009. The date for all U.S. troops to leave Iraq is December 31, 2011.
Obama told reporters Monday in Chicago that he still thinks 16 months is the "right time frame" for removing U.S. combat troops from the country.
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