Petraeus: Iraq troop decision likely by September »

Posted By not2needy 1 year, 1 month ago in News

The fall assessment of the politically unpopular war would put the Iraq debate front-and-center in this year's presidential elections, and possibly influence Iraqi provincial elections expected this November.

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    not2needy1 year, 1 month ago

    FTA:

    Petraeus has previously been reluctant to say when his next assessment of troop levels would be. In a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, the four-star Army general said conditions on the ground will still determine whether more troops can come home.

    But, he noted, "My sense is that I will be able to make a recommendation at that time for some further reductions.

    Very Rovian strategy.. right before election, a politically unpopular war, start pulling them out, try to get McCain elected, and then send them right back to Iraq. AN IDIOT could see through this scheme.

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    2sidestoeverything1 year, 1 month ago

    Well I guess that means I am not an idiot . . . at least for today. :~)

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      lfergie8121 year, 1 month ago

      "The fall assessment of the politically unpopular war would put the Iraq debate front-and-center in this year's presidential elections, and possibly influence Iraqi provincial elections expected this November."

      I never expected anything less. I also expect the price of gasoline to start dropping around that time but it never helped them two years ago.

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      texangelwings1 year, 1 month ago

      Too bad we can't get some straight talk and answers!

      Thanks not2!

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      raats66621 year, 1 month ago

      It will be INTERESTING to see how they explain 'troop reduction' if there is STILL violence in Basra.

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        Eagle_Eye1 year, 1 month ago

        Politics as usual, ((Yawn....))

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        Shadowolf1 year, 1 month ago

        ...Patraeus is just another NeoConArtist tool...a left handed spinner...

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        Wolfie20071 year, 1 month ago

        It is pretty clear that you folks haven't taken the time to check out the things that have been happening in Iraq lately.

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        dunkirk1 year, 1 month ago

        ROFLMAO< gee anyone thing troops wont be coming home in Sept to be followed by the next "surge" in Decemeber after the elections.

        But it is kinda odd, why none of the righties are complaining about how that helps the insurgents by giving them hope, ya know lets keep it quiet for a few months and they'll go away. AND, (horrors of horrors), we can follow them home and fight them there.

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        not2needy1 year, 1 month ago

        Off topic, but just now heard on the news here in Ky, gas is probably going to be 6$ a gallon this summer!!

        Now us Bush Bashers had better beware! lol, what a joke.

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        not2needy1 year, 1 month ago

        double post!

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          hefaa11 year, 1 month ago

          Know History? Look what happen in South Vietnam in 75' when the U.S. pulled out. The strong South Vietnamese infrastructure the U.S thought it left behind folded like a cheap accordion. Envision the last helicopter leaving the green zone's tallest building with a line of refuges being stranded on a roof top. The real insurgents are just waiting. This whole war was a colossal mistake.

          Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.

          Since our poor excuse for a president never had to go to Vietnam and was probably high/partying during this historical period in time, this will all be new to him.

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          jimdoze1 year, 1 month ago

          "Regardless how long the administration may choose to remain engaged in the strife in that country, our troops are better off with the leadership these two distinguished soldiers provide," said Levin, D-Mich.

          Clinton, D-N.Y., thanked the generals for their "incredible leadership."

          Oh, BTW, to those comparing Iraq to Vietnam... Iraq is strategically far more important than Vietnam ever was.

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            walden31 year, 1 month ago

            "...an endorsement by the panel's chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton."

            Not much different between Repubs and Dems. Without a counterbalance, even an artificial one, we can't stay in the middle. There needs to be an opposition party, if for nothing else then just to challenge ideas and conventional wisdom.

            Any way you look at it Iraq is a FOB. It is the new DMZ. There will be tens of thousands of US troops in Iraq for decades.

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              Poulenc1 year, 1 month ago

              Yes, this is a game of footsie, isn't it: a bit of tickle, then withdrawal (but not of the troops) then re-tickle, and...

              There's no end to the number of times this can occur; what it does is create a climate of possibility, even of hope, to which people desperate for same (which is all of us, frankly), can latch onto.

              So the meaning of "is" is..."maybe."

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                Charlson1 year, 1 month ago

                I will not trust anything this sycophant, Betrayus, says or does.

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