"We haven't talked timetables yet," he said.
"There are people in the administration who will say, 'We don't need to talk about timetables,' " Mr. Kucinich said.
Amid talk of timetables for reducing the number of American troops in Iraq, military commanders are not contemplating reducing the number in this part of the country.
Hans Blix, the Swedish lawyer and arms control expert who is executive chairman of the new inspection body, has repeatedly said that he cannot talk about timetables and lists of important Iraqi tasks until he can put inspectors back on the ground to study what has changed in the two years since the last United Nations inspections.
In Baghdad, in Washington and on the presidential campaign trail, there is increasingly specific talk of timetables, or at least of "a general time horizon," for United States withdrawals from Iraq — but the talk glosses over the questions of exactly how many soldiers will be left behind once combat troops are gone, and precisely what their mission will be.
The spin they will use will be VICTORY! as in "we can now talk about timetables for withdrawal in Iraq because we have achieved a stunning VICTORY! and it is now safe and prudent to do so".
Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, said: "We're not talking about timetables to leave, but we are talking about timetables for handover".
And now we are talking about timetables.
"But when scientists can show that over a period of time that global warming can, in fact, impact on the increase in world temperature, we better be talking about timetables".
Earlier this week the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said Solana and Jalili were due to discuss "the framework of talks and timetable of talks" in an attempt to break the deadlock.
