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Now the conditions for U.S. withdrawal no longer include a defeated insurgency, Pentagon sources say. The new administration mantra is that the insurgency can be beaten only politically, by the success of Iraq's new government.
Originally posted by grover
Yeah just like the bush vandals...do the damage, make a mess of everything, call it victory and sneak out of town. Bastards!!!
Originally posted by grover
Yeah just like the bush vandals...do the damage, make a mess of everything, call it victory and sneak out of town. Bastards!!!
Originally posted by grover
Nice try yadboy but honestly the bush cartel has not shown a single iota of introspection or self examination since it was selected the first time and I see no evidence of it now. As for not wanting stooping to a low level all I can say is !!!
Originally posted by grover
Be that as it may he is still a dickhead and deserves impeachment and criminal proscution for his lies to get us into this totally purposeless war.
sfgate
Lawrence Di Rita, spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, noted that troop levels were raised last January during Iraq's first elections, and then returned to the current level of about 138,000 several weeks later.
"It's perfectly plausible to assume we'll do the same thing for this election," he said, while stressing that no decisions have been made.
Di Rita said he did not know how many extra troops might be needed during the referendum and election period.
Last January the U.S. troop level rose as high as 160,000. This was accomplished mainly by overlapping some of the units arriving in Iraq to begin a one-year tour with those who were finishing up their yearlong tours. In one case an Army brigade was kept a little longer than its scheduled 12 months in Iraq, and Di Rita said he could not rule out that this could happen again this fall, although the intention is to avoid tours longer than 12 months.