Iraq Attacks To Peak In Six Months; US Out In A Year: Mccaffrey

[bemildred]

Some stunning bullshit and double talk here.

"January through September 2006 will be the peak period of the insurgency and the bottom rung of the new Iraq," McCaffrey told the Senate foreign relations committee.

"The positive trend lines following the January 2006 elections -- if they continue -- will likely permit the withdrawal of US combat forces by late summer of 2006," said McCaffrey, who formerly taught at the West Point military academy, after a week-long fact-finding tour of Iraq one month ago.

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McCaffrey commended the "decent strategy" built by former US ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte and the leader of the US Central Command, General John Abizaid.

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"We've got 17 combat brigades there right now, we will be forced into a drawdown and have 10 brigades or less on the ground by next summer. The Army and Marines are starting to come apart under this overly aggressive foreign policy," he said.

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[Xipe Totec]

1. Based on their track record so-far

I'm sure their predictions will be right on the nose this time.

:spray:

Sorry! I thought I could keep a straight face.

[mike_c]

2. call me a cynic...

...but isn't that just in time for the 2006 congressional elections? Not that I believe it-- I don't think the U.S. will leave Iraq anytime soon-- but I can certainly understand why some politicians' wishful thinking might bend in that direction.

[DemNoir]

5. Thats it exactly

Watch their "resolve" disappear when they are faced with losing Congress over Iraq.

I think a large withdrawal of troops will be underway before then.

[wli]

7. you underestimate these nazis

They'll just rig the election, as usual.

[yurbud]

11. they will announce, have pics of soldiers getting off plane...

and just keep them their until they kill every Iraqi so they can drill some oil in peace.

Hillbilly Hitler art:



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[BillZBubb]

3. Does McCaffrey have credibility with ANYONE????

He's not been right on one single Iraq issue. So now he's got a new crystal ball?

What a laugh.

[leftchick]

6. yes he does

with cable snooze channel MSRNC.

nuff said.

[acmavm]

4. Do they think they can have all the oil out of the sand by then?

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[DeaconBlues]

8. the ghost of Westmoreland must still be restless

How many times will these fools be proven wrong before the people wake up?

[Kraklen]

9. He did such a good job winning the War on Drugs...

I'm sure we can trust him to have our boys back by christmas.

[bluestateguy]

13. yes I remember

It was the Clinton Administration, before the Bush II Administration, that sought to nullify California's medicinal marijuana law. A law that I voted for in 1996, and I don't appreciate having my vote thrown away by politicians in Washington D.C.

[bluestateguy]

10. While I take McCaffrey more seriously than anyone in the Bush Administrati

I still think he is just wrong, but he at least acknowledges that perhaps the worst is yet to come, and that our military is being exhausted by this whole clusterfuck.

[bemildred]

12. He is lying to us or lying to himself.

He is a General officer, he has no excuse for spouting this babble.
It is true he indulges in some butt covering, but real courage would eschew the happy talk.

[tabasco]

20. I can't believe that he believes this scenario.

Therefore he is a liar and a propagandist.

Not much integrity for a four-star.

[bemildred]

21. MCCaffrey's sluttish nature has been clear for some time now.

But I have a great deal of faith in the ability of dishonest people to bullshit themselves, it's almost a job skill. Not that I mean to disagree with you in any way. :toast:

[IndianaGreen]

19. I really rthink he has been bitten by the "light at the end of the tunnel"

bug. I fear that Iraq may well be on the verge of a civil war like the one that ravaged Lebanon.

[LynnTheDem]

14. "The positive trend lines following the January 2006 (?) elections..."

Is he referring to the record number of insurgent attacks? Or perhaps he means Mosul II and Fallujah III. Or maybe it's the Talibanization of Basra he sees as a "postive trend". Couldn't be the number of dead US troops, surely.

[Barrett808]

16. Maybe he means this trend line

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html

[maxsolomon]

15. big drawdown talk on the run up to november 2006

once that election is over & the GOP safely ensconced till the end of the bush presidency, all that withdrawal talk will disappear & the need to secure the oil will come out of hiding.

[Career Prole]

17. They've swapped their rose-colored glasses

for rose-colored binoculars! :wow:

[daleo]

18. Who does he like in the ninth race?

His prognostication skills are pretty awesome.

[thebigidea]

22. if I hear this asshole call Gen. Petraeus "brilliant" one more time....

... i'm gonna fucking snap!

this droning, babbling, bourbon-soaked lush has been spitting his slurred expertise out on msnbc for the past few years and has YET to be right ONCE. ONCE!

[anotherdrew]

23. Petraeus? BetrayUs? His answer to anything is decimation...

Looks like decimation isn't working - although the casualty stats publicly available sure kinda look like a policy of decimation is in action it ain't doing shit to win the 'war', whatever that is. What's the mission george? What is the exit strategy? Nation building bad... humble foreign policy my ass. May gwb and the accountability party pay dearly for this fiasco