The White House nominee for top military adviser to George W. Bush warned yesterday that a lack of political reconciliation in Iraq could jeopardise the likelihood of the US being able to stabilise the country.
Admiral Michael Mullen, the current chief of naval operations who was nominated to replace General Peter Pace as chairman of the joint chiefs, said the US military "surge" was showing some progress. But he warned that the Iraqi government had not taken the opportunity to implement political reconciliation.
