Pentagon: Iraq Troop Reductions On Way

[Hobo]

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{http://abcnews.go.com/US/IraqCoverage/story?id=1892044]

-Hobo

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[54anickel]

8. Why do you keep posting the same thing all over this board?

[liberal N proud]

2. Draw down the troops through the year. THE ELECTION YEAR

Then in November they can push them all back in.

This looks like a political move in an attempt to save the election for the republicans in the fall.

We can not rest until all the troops are home.

[Nickster]

3. HA,HA,HA. Could see some reductions, surprise,surprise, by NOVEMBER.

Gee, what's happening around November this year? Hmmmm....Same crap they pulled during the last election. Ramp up the stories about possibly, maybe, could be reducing troop levels.

[meegbear]

4. Hmmmmm ....

... pull more than 30,000 troops out by the end of the year, and possibly by as early as November.

Aren't there elections around November?

[trogdor]

5. It's the choco-ration gambit.

First they deploy 35,000 troops, then they bring 30,000 different ones home, and make a big fuss about it to give the impression this thing might be winding down.

[RufusEarl]

6. "The reductions depend on political and security progress,"

this is what they have been saying for three years. This admin have no plans to bring troop home, end of story. They will keep saying they have plans to reduce troop levels, but thats so republicans can go back to their districts and tell voters we're bringing the troops home. It's smoke and mirror, plan and simple.

[Rose Siding]

7. Are they on a loop or something?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10101677/

Pentagon plans for troop drawdown in Iraq
By Jim Miklaszewski
Pentagon Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:52 p.m. ET Nov. 18, 2005
......It would still leave 90,000-100,000 American troops in Iraq at the end of next year.

[fjc]

9. It's running the war according to the election cycle.

That, after all, is what national security really means to these buys.

[cliss]

10. In related news, there is an article

on Yahoo news where "Rice and Rumsfailed make surprise visit to Iraq". There's a photo of Rice, shaking hands with the new leader, Jawad al-Maliki.

Rumsfailed is smiling, so is Rice. Underneath the smiles, though, they're sweating big time. They know the jig is almost up. They're both walking on thin ice....the American public has had it with them.

Here's another secret: Mr. Al-Maliki is not a US-puppet. In fact, he's a friend of the outgoing PM, Mr. Jaafari. Mr. Jaafari drew anger from Washington because he supported Muqtada Al-Sadr.

Nothing has changed! It's exactly the same as it was 2 weeks ago. But look at these comments from Gen. Casey: "Now things are improving"...."I'm able to make some decisions".

It's all just smoke and mirrors. They're sweating big time over November, that's all.

[maddezmom]

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[Hobo]

12. Done

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-Hobo

[Bob3]

13. I'm not surprised - the number of Iraqi troops can't be very large

Oh --- US troops in Iraq. Well I guess they are taking out the ones they had just put in for the Election and the formation of the new government. Which somehow doesn't seem like a reduction, rather a decrease in an increase. Or something like that.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. In fact, they are gathering on the Iranian border as we speak.

Nothing to worry about though, because as promised, they are leaving Iraq.

[TexasLawyer]

17. Yes-- leaving Iraq, but stationing elsewhere

in the ME for deployment to WWIII-- Iran. Not really my idea of progress.

[IChing]

15. " and possibly by as early as November."

Need we say more why that date was mentioned?

[Career Prole]

16. I believe we'll see a troop reduction. I'll even say right out loud

that this "by November" troop reduction is at the suggestion of KKKarl Rove.

Yes, I am that cynical about this administration that I would think that a doughy shitball like Rove can make a "suggestion" as important as troop withdrawals to * and have * act on it.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit to find out that Rummy's in Iraq right now because Rove told him to.

[badgervan]

18. Read it Closely....

These people are masters of using weasel words: "depend on", "hope to", "would enable", "expected to", "officials caution", etc.
They give no definite statement, yet they give the illusion of doing so. Also gives them an easy out when things don't go according to "plan". Not that that would ever happen.