Pace Denies Iraq Pullout Plan

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,186866,00.html

Pace Denies Iraq Pullout Plan

WASHINGTON — Two British papers are reporting that the United Kingdom and the United States have agreed on a date for troop pullout of Iraq, but the Pentagon's top general said Sunday that is untrue.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace said conditions on the ground will determine when U.S. and coalition forces will depart Iraq.

"We're going to do exactly what we said we were going to do, which is to make the assessments of situations on the ground. The commanders in the theater will make their recommendations up the chain of command, and that will eventually get through the secretary of defense, to the president, for decisions about U.S. troop levels," Pace told "FOX News Sunday."

The British reports, citing an unnamed senior British defense source, say the plan is to bring U.S. and British troops home within the year. Britain's Sunday Telegraph reports the alleged strategy is the result of acceptance in London and Washington that coalition troops are "the main obstacle to peace" in Iraq.

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Anything they deny is true. n/t

[madeline_con]

2. Anybody here speak Politico?

"We're going to do exactly what we said we were going to do, which is to make the assessments of situations on the ground. The commanders in the theater will make their recommendations up the chain of command, and that will eventually get through the secretary of defense, to the president, for decisions about U.S. troop levels," Pace told "FOX News Sunday."


He said they're getting ready to withdraw. But they have a few more things to fuck up first.

This from one of those who had no clue about the Dubia deal, even though he's the friggin Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff! He could be just as in the loop on this one, come to think of it.


EDIT typos suk

[Up2Late]

3. Harry Shearer asked on his Le Show radio show today, what do you call...

...that, (instead of "Cut & Run") "...a little off the back and sides and Walk?"

[robertpaulsen]

4. Of course theres a pullout plan. How else to confront Iran?

We'll keep just enough troops to protect the Oil Ministry facilities and infrastructure. With the rest, it's on to Teheran. How else do the Rethuglicans expect to take the midterms other than repeating the formula for 2002 by bullying America into being afraid of the Great Iranian Mushroom Cloud Threat?

[killerbush]

5. this is a red herring

I read this too, and it looks to me like a red herring. Bush doesn't want to abandon Iraq, because his killing machine has yet to run its course