The year is 2013.  U.S. troops killed so far 323, troops wounded 1576.  The Iraqi government is still negotiating with the Sunni and Shia leaders about sharing Iraq’s oil reserves.

12/14/12 AP: Suicide bomber kills 22 in attack west of Baghdad Iraqi police say a suicide bomber killed 22 people and wounded at least 35 at the funeral of a Sunni school principal west of Baghdad. The bomber blew himself up in a funeral tent in the village of Abu Minasir.

12/14/12 AFP: US troops search in Baghdad's Sadr City
US troops went from house to house on Wednesday in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold looking for bombs and arms ahead of an Iraqi army deployment in line with a new truce, witnesses and officials said.

12/15/12 AP: Iraqi PM visits Mosul to review anti-Qaida campaign Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has arrived in the northern city of Mosul to check on his army's campaign against al-Qaida in its last remaining major stronghold.

12/17/12 Reuters: Baghdad fighting kills 7, but city calmer Clashes broke out between security forces and Shi'ite gunmen in Baghdad overnight and on Wednesday, police said, killing seven people and putting more strain on a deal to end nearly two months of fighting.

12/21/12 BBC: MPs told of Iraq helicopter crash A helicopter crash which killed two servicemen in Iraq, was caused when one aircraft tried to land too close to another, MPs have been told.

12/22/12 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills guard, wounds 6 others A roadside bomb targeted the convoy of Baghdad's Governor Hussein al-Tahan, killing one of his guards and wounding six people near al-Nasser Square in central Baghdad, police said. Al-Tahan was not in the convoy.

12/23/12 Reuters: Five bodies found in Baghdad on Wednesday The bodies of five people were found in Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.

12/25/12 Reuters: U.S. kills 4 militants in clashes in northwestern Baghdad. The U.S. military said it killed four militants in clashes on Wednesday afternoon in the Kadhimiya district of northwestern Baghdad.

12/25/12 Reuters: Iraqi army arrest manager of the Nineveh governor's office The Iraqi army said it arrested the manager of the Nineveh governor's office in a raid in southern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad.

12/26/12 Reuters: Iraqi army arrest head of facilities protection force in Mosul The Iraqi army said it arrested the head of the facilities protection force in Mosul on Wednesday.

12/27/12 NYTimes: Despite Truce, War Over Wall Persists in Sadr City Supporters of Moktada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric, denounced the wall as a nefarious effort to divide the city. Militia fighters with rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and small arms have been trying to halt its construction.

12/30/12 Reuters: Seven die in clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City Clashes between Shi'ite militiamen and security forces in Baghdad's Sadr City slum killed seven people and wounded 19 overnight, Iraqi police and hospitals said on Thursday. 

January 20, 2013, during the State of the Union address, President John McCain announces a massive troop withdraw date, disregarding his own words back on February 17, 2008, “I still say setting a date for withdrawal is chaos, genocide, and we'll be back, because Al Qaeda will then succeed."
  
When question about this, “I made a promise to Americans in 2008”, said the President, “during my campaign, that I would have ‘most’ of our troops out of Iraq by 2013, and “I dam well do that -- genocide, chaos or not”