Mr. Obama plans an orderly withdrawal starting next July, though it will be "conditions-based".
He or she will have to start quickly planning for an orderly withdrawal.
He opposed the Iraq war and has begun planning an orderly withdrawal of American troops.
Mr. Bush should start preparing now for an orderly withdrawal — and for a strategic review of America's relationship with Iraq.
Mr Barak had badly wanted an orderly withdrawal with an expanded United Nations peacekeeping force taking control of border areas.
America's primary goal should be an orderly withdrawal that leaves Iraq with a chance at staying unified, sovereign and democratic.
This week's dramatic events, which turned an orderly withdrawal into a disorderly rout, should not detract from the wisdom of the decision to get out.
In one of the first acts of his presidency, Mr Obama is expected to announce an orderly withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.
At each stop, Mr. Panetta acknowledged that significant challenges remain to an orderly withdrawal and a stable postwar Afghanistan, and not just the resilient insurgency.
He also forbade the German forces already engaged in Normandy to retreat in time to make an orderly withdrawal to new defenses.
Without that certification, the measure required that money could be spent in Kosovo only for an orderly withdrawal of American forces.
