According to incoming Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the US is not winning in Iraq. That sentiment was repeated clearly and often by members of the Baker Hamilton Iraq Study Group.
Center for American Progress Senior Fellow PJ Crowley offers a timetable of when a change in course will come.

For more on the Iraq Study Group and the Center's plan for Iraq and the region, Strategic Redeployment, please see:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/12/isg_report.html

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