US military 'to defy' Iraqi pact (scamming Obama)

[ensho]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JL20Ak01.html


United States military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the US-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete pullout of all US combat troops from Iraqi cities by mid-2009 by reclassifying combat troops as support troops.

The scheme to engage in chicanery in labeling US troops represents both open defiance of an agreement which the US military has never accepted and a way of blocking president-elect Barack Obama's proposed plan for withdrawal of all US combat troops from Iraq within 16 months of his taking office.

By redesignating tens of thousands of combat troops as support troops, those officials apparently hope to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Obama to insist on getting all combat troops of the country by mid-2010.

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Those statements evidently represent part of the case Gates, Mullen and the military commanders are already making behind the scenes to get Obama to acquiesce in the subversion of the intent of the US-Iraq agreement.
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I hate the neo cons

[jody]

1. That is utter BS. Obama will be the Commander in Chief and all commanders can either obey his orders

or Obama can fire them just as Truman fired MacArthur.

The choice is Obama's and his alone.

[Mudoria]

2. Considering the source, this news might be fit to cover

the bottom of the birdcage.

[ensho]

3. you jest?

you are bad mouthing Asia Times Online?