Entering the fifth year US commander says no quick fixes in Baghdad

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BAGHDAD - A US commander cautioned that even with thousands more American troops streaming into Iraq, the fight to stabilise Baghdad would not be over by September, which is looming as a key juncture in the four-year-old war. Major-General Joseph Fil, commander of US forces in Baghdad, said he will have deployed all his reinforcements by the middle of June under a security offensive launched three months ago. That would have a “huge” impact on spreading a security footprint across the city, he said.

“(But) just having them arrived doesn’t just turn things around,” Fil said in an interview on Tuesday at his headquarters at a military base near Baghdad’s airport.

General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, will make an assessment of the American “troop surge” in September.

That timing coincides with when Washington expects Iraq to have met benchmarks aimed at healing sectarian divisions, such as passing a law to equitably share Iraq’s vast oil wealth.

yep they see that perhaps this is for real

they give us the month, but not the year. And September is always the end of the federal fiscal year.