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Cheney makes surprise visit to Iraq

by Dave Keating | March 17, 2008 at 06:21 am | 172 views | add comment

As the deadline for the Iraq progress report looms closer, the Bush administration is refocusing attention on the conflict.

Vice President Dick Cheney landed
in Baghdad today on an unannounced trip for meetings with U.S.
military commanders and Iraqi officials before a progress report
on the war set for delivery to Congress next month.

Cheney, arriving days before the five-year anniversary of
the U.S. invasion, plans to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki as well as Army General David Petraeus, Ambassador
Ryan Crocker and other leaders. Petraeus and Crocker are
scheduled to brief Congress on progress in the country since
President George W. Bush ordered the deployment of 30,000 extra
U.S. soldiers a year ago.