'Honest mistake' sets off alarm about US troops in Iraq

For a few tense hours Monday, the United States appeared to have announced that American troops were pulling out of Baghdad after nearly 17 years.“Here's the bottom line, this was a mistake,” Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said as he tried to unravel a knot of miscommunication that came at a time of already soaring tensions with the Middle East.The bungled message started when a draft letter from Marine Brig. Gen. William Seely began circulating on social me