Schwarzenegger backs 2007 deadline for U.S. in Iraq
Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:09 PM ET

By Adam Tanner

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, suggested on Wednesday that the United States should withdraw its military forces from Iraq by the end of this year.

"We should set a deadline and a timeline of when we pull out," he told a annual media lunch in Sacramento.

"I think we should make it very clear to the Iraqi government that we are not going to stay there forever, that the end of this year they have to be self reliant and they have to create a military as quick as possible where they can take care of themselves." [Read More!]