Operation Withdrawal Scam

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Operation Withdrawal Scam
by Norman Solomon, TomPaine.com

As support for war in Iraq plummets, expect the White House to pacify the public with talk of pull-out.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050802/operation_withdrawal_scam.php

A few days ago, the White House launched a new phase of its propaganda siege for the Iraq war.

The opening salvo came on July 27, when the commander of American forces in Iraq said that continuation of recent trends would make possible “some fairly substantial reductions” of U.S. troop levels in the spring and summer of 2006. Those reductions, Gen. George Casey proclaimed, will happen “if the political process continues to go positively and if the development of the security forces continues to go as it is going.”

Gen. Casey’s statement, which made big news, was the start of a media offensive likely to last for the next 15 months, until the congressional elections. We might call it Operation Withdrawal Scam.

Overall, the strategy is double-barreled: Keep killing in Iraq while hyping scenarios for withdrawal of U.S. troops.

President Bush has always made a show of rejecting calls for a pullout timetable. Yet the current media buzz about possible withdrawal from Iraq is not without precedent. Some appreciable publicity along similar lines came last fall—from a journalistic source who has eagerly done some of Karl Rove’s dirtiest work.
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[G_j]

1. kick

[Disturbed]

3. This Prz says one thing and

his thugs do the opposite. That way he is not blamed for the policy when it fails. The Drawdown would still keep over 50K Troops in Iraq to protect the oil territories. The U.S. will never leave Iraq entirely. PNAC rules this Regime and their agenda will not be detered. The Prez is merely a sock puppet of the Multi-Corps.

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4. Article from May: US military to build four giant new bases in Iraq

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5199524-103681,00.html

US military to build four giant new bases in Iraq

Michael Howard in Baghdad
Monday May 23, 2005

Guardian

US military commanders are planning to pull back their troops from Iraq's towns and cities and redeploy them in four giant bases in a strategy they say is a prelude to eventual withdrawal.
The plan, details of which emerged at the weekend, also foresees a transfer to Iraqi command of more than 100 bases that have been occupied by US-led multinational forces since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

However, the decision to in vest in the bases, which will require the construction of more permanent structures such as blast-proof barracks and offices, is seen by some as a sign that the US expects to keep a permanent presence in Iraq.

Politicians opposed to a long-term US presence on Iraqi soil questioned the plan.

"They appear to settling in a for the long run, and that will only give fuel for the terrorists," said a spokesman for the mainstream Sunni Iraqi Islamic party.

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[Catherine Vincent]

2. I hope this evil corrupt gang doesn't get away with what they did.

I and many others will always believe that this Iraq war was unnecessary. All those deaths!