Obama Presser: On Iraq
Question 6 Renewed violence in Iraq prompting a rethinking of his timetable for withdrawal?
"You haven't seen the kinds of huge spikes (in violence) that you were seeing for a time. The political system is holding and functioning in Iraq."
Obama said the reason he called for a gradual withdrawal is that more work needs to be done to marginalize "whatever remnants of Al Qaeda in Iraq still exist."
(JENNIFER SKALKA)