Iraq’s military is drawing up plans to cope with any quick U.S. military pullout, the defense minister said Monday, as a senior American official warned that the Bush administration may reconsider its support if Iraqi leaders don’t make major reforms by fall. The U.S. official did not say what actions could be taken by the White House, but his comments reflected the administration’s need to show results in Iraq - as an answer to pressure by the Democrats in Congress seeking to set timetables on the U.S. military presence. Several mortar shells hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone, one striking the Iraqi parliament building but causing no casualties - the latest in near daily barrages on the nerve center of the U.S. mission and Iraqi government that underline the country’s tenuous security. At least 58 Iraqis were killed by attacks or found dead across Iraq, including seven people ambushed on a bus northeast of Baghdad, police said. The dead included 24 men whose bullet-riddled bodies were found across Baghdad, apparent victims of sectarian death squads. British troops clashed with Shiite Muslim gunmen in the southern city of Basra. Britain’s military said one British soldier and a civilian […]