In other Iraq news, the McClatchy newspapers reports the U.S. military has quietly made a major policy shift in the war. Military planners have abandoned the idea that training Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon. The military believes that U.S. troops will have to secure the country largely on its own. The Pentagon has not announced the change, but evidence has been building for months that training Iraqi troops is no longer the focus of U.S. policy.