According to a Congressional panel headed up by Gen. Jones a retired 4-star general:

“The progress of the Iraqi Army is certainly real,” said the report by a panel of retired senior military and police officers. “The strategic implications of such continuing successes are encouraging. Coalition forces could begin to be adjusted, realigned and re-tasked as the Iraqi Army is able to take on more responsibility for daily combat operations,” possibly starting “in early 2008.” It called this a “possible and prudent” course.