Soldiers prepare to leave Iraq in anticipation of the June 30 deadline for pulling out. (Ali Al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images)
After six years of occupation, U.S. troops are about to pull out of Iraqi cities. Amid increasing violence, including a series of explosions across Baghdad and a suicide truck bombing last weekend, is Iraq is ready to handle its own security when the 133,000 U.S. troops depart? Rod Nordland is the Foreign Correspondent in the Baghdad Bureau for our partners The New York Times, and he joins us now to help answer that question.
For more, read Rod Nordland's article, Spate of Attacks Tests Iraqi City and U.S. Pullout, in The New York Times.
"We can't very well leave Iraq if the Iraqi forces can't stand on their own. So we need to do as much as we can to train them."
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New York times correspondent Rod Nordland on the withdrawing of U.S. troops from Iraq
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