U.S. commanders favour slower Iraq pullout ... Slower? How many have we pulled out so far?

[NNN0LHI]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE51629M20090208

Sun Feb 8, 2009 7:54am GMT

By Andrew Gray

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military planners have drawn up three options to allow President Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq, with senior commanders favouring the slowest of the three, officials said on Saturday.

The timelines under discussion are 16 months, proposed by Obama as a centrepiece of his presidential campaign, 19 months and 23 months, the officials said.

"The focus of the effort is on those three options," said a U.S. official familiar with the process.

[ThomWV]

1. Every god damend one of them should have their resignations on Obama's desk before noon

Who in hell do these "Planners" (read Generals) think they are? The Commander in Chief said we are getting out, now get us the fuck out or resign.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. I'd call in that SOB Peterus and tell him he's demoted to private.

Then I'd tell his underlings they have 10 months to have all our men and equipment either here in the states or parked in Kuwait or they'll be busted down to private too.

[LakeSamish706]

2. And who didn't see this coming by leaving Gates as SecDef? President Obama...

is going to have to clean out the Pentagon and start from scratch. There are to many Bush cronies left there.

[bdamomma]

4. is Cheney still behind any of this?

[zbdent]

5. I think the ones we've pulled out

have been pulled out by the handles on the gurneys ...