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2007-07-30 Iraq

Commander: Big U.S. Presence in Iraq Until Mid-2009

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Posted by Sherry 2007-07-30 12:07|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 Good.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-30 12:44|| 2007-07-30 12:44|| Front Page Top

#2 It is important how the administration handles the draw down. They should rotate the unneeded home in large blocks to great announcement. Target rotations in parts of the US that are problematic, and arrange for large welcome home parades, to show the public.

After a few thousand only, the public would get the "feeling" that "troops are coming home", which would give the war effort a lot more time. From that point on, returns to Iraq should be individual, with groups coming back.

That is, 5,000 go as individuals, 1,000 come home as a group.

Yes, it is a "Potempkin" draw down, but it is needed both to reassure the public, and undermine the anti-war and anti-military forces.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-30 13:32|| 2007-07-30 13:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Anybody catch David Ignatius on Chris Matthews's Sunday show? I heard the bite on Rush about an hour ago. He stated, to my great shock, that Iraq was another front on the War. (Meaning, "GWOT", though he didn't say all that, I don't think.)

Still... that's effectively a 180 from 4 YEARS of rhetoric about Iraq as "diversion", about "taking your eye off the ball" and so on.

Posted by eLarson 2007-07-30 13:52|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-07-30 13:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Well duh! For crissakes we got troops in friggin Europe and Korea 50 odd years after the fact.

We're gonna be in Iraq in a big base or two in 2050 also.

Posted by jds 2007-07-30 20:10|| 2007-07-30 20:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Just as everywhere else, we won't stay in Iraq a minute longer than we are wanted after we establish the peace. The magnitude of our victory will be proportional to the length of our stay.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-07-30 20:30|| 2007-07-30 20:30|| Front Page Top

#6 No surprise here to God + Taotaomonas + Madonna fans, roughly = coincidentally just in time for the occurrence of a large, multi-colored interstellar explosion whose detonation could be seen here on Guam despite the lousy weather. DIVINE SIGN TO THE FAITHFUL + WORLD THAT CERTAIN [PRELIMINARY]EVENTS WILL SOON OCCUR . * e.g. NOSTRADAMUS - "None shall see the power of Asia destroyed until SEVEN/SEVENTH holds the line..."

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-07-30 22:40|| 2007-07-30 22:40|| Front Page Top

#7 thanks Joe. I was feeling I was unstable. I feel better now....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-30 22:48|| 2007-07-30 22:48|| Front Page Top

#8 "JoeM! Lowering the bar!"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-30 22:49|| 2007-07-30 22:49|| Front Page Top

#9 ROFL, Frank! Make it "snarks of the day", not "snark". ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2007-07-30 23:50|| 2007-07-30 23:50|| Front Page Top

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