Officials Won't Put Timetable on Iraq Exit

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050216/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq&cid=542&ncid=1480


Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told House and Senate committees that progress was being made in training Iraqi security forces but there was no way to know when the U.S. presence would end.


"There has never been a war that was predictable as to length, casualty or cost in the history of mankind," he told the House Armed Services Committee under questioning from Rep. Solomon Ortiz (news, bio, voting record), D-Texas.


Pentagon (news - web sites) officials have long held that the United States cannot consider drawing down troop levels until Iraqi security forces are able to protect their own fragile democracy from insurgents.


Later, before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Rumsfeld declined to rule out a permanent or long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq when pressed by Sen. Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), D-Vt. Rumsfeld said the Pentagon has no such plan but that it could become a matter for the president to discuss with Iraqi leaders once an elected government is in place.

...I guess rummy forgot to mention this...A Permanent Presence in Iraq. I would have hoped Leahy or some Democrat would have brought this up!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=742&e=5&u=/thenation/20050118/cm_thenation/132132

[cthrumatrix]

1. LOL -- we thought that 14 army bases implied that some time ago

all the other lies they shared will be ignored by the corp. media.

[PurityOfEssence]

2. How fast can 112.5 billion barrels of oil be pumped?

Then there's that little issue of Israel...

Can you say...NEVER?

[cthrumatrix]

3. BINGO.....

[leftchick]

4. the oil is only coming out in dribs and drabs right now.....

I sure hope that is pissing off chevron, bp and the rest of the crooks.

[Greenberg240]

5. Even Wes Clark said here should be NO timetable.

That's good enough for me.