Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Washington Foreign Press Center Briefing on "U.S. National Security Strategy Update." (Photo from State)From the Washington Post:
The U.S. military would require two to three years to remove its roughly 150,000 troops and equipment from Iraq safely, and the timing of that withdrawal should be based on security conditions on the ground, the nation's top military officer said today.
"To remove the entire force would be, you know, two to three years," Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at a Pentagon news conference.
While Mullen said that he and the top commanders for Iraq and the region, Gen. Ray Odierno and Gen. David Petraeus, were "comfortable" with the status of forces agreement signed with Iraq today, he described some logistical hurdles to a U.S. troop withdrawal along a fixed timeline.
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My Comment: Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is laying the military line to the politicians.