Withdrawing from Iraq to be Announced?

The Wall Street Journal has announced that there is an agreement to withdraw all combat troops out of Iraq by 2011.

U.S. and Iraqi negotiators reached agreement on a security deal that calls for American military forces to leave Iraq's cities by next summer as a prelude to a full withdrawal from the country, according to senior American officials.

The draft agreement sets 2011 as the date by which all remaining U.S. troops will leave Iraq, according to Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Haj Humood and other people familiar with the matter.

Looks like Bush is finally taking the advice of Democrats and the majority of the American people.

If this is an accurate report, it brings up a few issues for the Fall campaign for President. Bush will be pulling out the troops....does this mean he "wants to lose the war" or that he is "unpatriotic"? Are we "cutting and running"? Is this a "timetable" or a "horizon"? Will McCain now lose his most important campaign issue...that we need to win the war in Iraq? Will McCain have to admit that he was mistaken when he told us that Maliki didn't really want a timetable for withdrawal.

I wonder how much the fact that Afghanistan seems to be falling apart has to do with this decision? But at least now McCain will have the extra troops necessary to protect Georgia and the Ukraine and Poland from the Russians.