U.S. Wants Fewer Troops in Line of Fire

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON (AP) -

The Pentagon wants to pull increasing numbers of American troops out of the line of fire in Iraq, but three years after the invasion this latest evolution in the U.S. military's mission will depend largely on whether Iraqi security forces can handle it.

Whether there will be the first sustained decline in American casualties since the insurgency took hold in late summer 2003 depends on how quickly and fully U.S. troops' roles are changed. So far more than 2,300 American troops have died in the campaign, with more than 17,000 wounded.

Though the stated goal of U.S. officials is to make a substantial withdrawal of troops this year, it is not yet clear that the Iraqis will prove ready - politically or militarily - to take on the added responsibility. A Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine set off sectarian violence that has slowed the process of forming a permanent government in Baghdad, more than three months after December's elections.

This week the outlook was altered by two developments. The Pentagon announced it was sending 700 more U.S. troops into Iraq from Kuwait, and it launched a large assault on suspected insurgent territory near Samarra, north of Baghdad.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-exec/2006/mar/18/031808598.html

[TomInTib]

1. More and more, this looks like starting a schoolyard fight and...

asking your sister to step in for you.

[corporatemedia]

2. Yeah, but MY sister would win. n/t

[TomInTib]

3. Actually, mine would, too...

she is a card-carrying gun-toting fundie crazy (paranoid schizo) who once shot up a gas station in Beaumont, Texas, for not taking her check.
She then led the cops on a chase thru downtown. When cornered, she drove her SUV up this high curb and right thru the front windows of a Pittsburgh Paints store, not stopping until she hit the back wall. Place looked like the inside of a huge psychedelic kaleidoscope.

And that's just one story

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. "U.S. Wants Fewer Troops in Line of Fire" - well go HOME then

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Take care of your own fecking citizens FIRST fur chrissake!!

Those 5 billion bucks or so each month could sure help out the homeless and hungry in the "YewNited States there ?

Or is there sumthing wrong with My Canuk Math?

must be

couldn't be that the "Greatest Nation on Earth" is run by a bunch of Bloodthirsty Capitalists

That's just a myth that the rest of the World seems to be believing lately

And silly me I agree with them . . .

But I's just a Dumm Canuk :dunce:

[OneBlueSky]

5. translation: "We're going to bomb the shit out of Iraq" . . . n/t

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[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Already did that - Iraq is just a staging ground for Iran methinks

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don't be fooled

Bush and the PNACers ain't stupid

Evil yes

Stupid, nope . . .

BUT

If the rest of the World ever gets it's cajones together, then the USA has fu*ked itself,

But the PNACers have gambled that we will remain divided with our own selfish interests.

Sadly, . . . .

So far the PNACers are correct . . .

(sigh)