Posted on 07/09/2007 7:15:45 PM PDT by zeller the zealot
progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reform, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday.
One likely result of the report will be a vastly accelerated debate among President Bush's top aides on withdrawing troops and scaling back the U.S. presence in Iraq.
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I’m getting really concerned that the Iraqis will not step up an shoulder the load.
This was the lead on CNN tonight.
It’s too late for Bush’s surge strategy. All Congressmen are looking toward the elections in ‘08 and with the popularity of the war waaaaay down, they’re going to abandon the surge.
Bush should have tried this a year or two ago when some other Republicans were for it...
Its sad to say but he just does not have the support in Congress anymore...its over.
They won’t do it. The groups are manuevering for advantage not cooperation. They know the US will leave eventually.
Democrat Majority Press is just hoping to promote the idea no progress was made in Iraq, and they have to overlook the
Iraqi Police and Military to elaborate on ‘Government’ failing grades.
Then, after they get their surrender implmented, they’ll tell Americams how stupid we were for giving up when the Iraqi Forces were close to standing on their own.
The hard Military work of our own Troops also is being overlooked,
as they have forged relationships with the Iraqi Citizens to help clear Al Qadah.
I have no confidence in Susan Collins.
We need to remind them that if they lose the war they will be out of a job, it’s that simple.
Bttt
yeah, right. the Republicans are thinking the only way to KEEP their job is to go against this surge and the president. Unfortunately, this surege was too little too late.
Bush should have tried this a year or two ago...this is depressing to see but Bush just has no more support in Congress.
I am 100% sure that you are wrong and it is not over not even close for being over. Two months ago many people were saying the same idiocy that you are saying now when the war fund bills were debated and they were so sure that the President will cave to the democrats two month ago and accept surrender date. He did not accept now, he is not accepting today and he is never going to accept it as long as he is President.
“Is the based demoralized enough to leave him stranded on Iraq? “
You have it backward. The RINO’s will now hang Bush as revenge for the Conservatives hanging Bush and the RINO’s over immigration.
Conservatives aren’t walking on this issue. The RINO’s are walking.
Stop. Any Republican voting with the Democrats will be out of office next cycle. Any Democrat who doesn’t live in a Socialist city voting for a retreat will face the same fate.
Bush won’t wait till 2008 to pull troops out. If the vote is against the war, troops will leave immediately and the Democrats and the anti-war Americans will take ownership of what is to come.
The RATS are living 1973 all over again.
no kidding...
After we turned our heads the last time when the Kurds were getting gassed and slaughtered...what becomes of them this time?
and 140,000 Turkish troops are on the border
Nonsense. You sound like a democrat. The surge is funded through September and two reports are due measuring more than just Iraqi political accomplishments prior to that. The president likely has the authority to shift funds around, demanding that any legislation de-funding the troops be so bitter and dangerous that wavering Republicans (like wavering freepers) dare not pass it.
This IS the Hill to die on.
Good points. This is Bush’s last chance for a real legacy. It all depends on his will to establish it and his ability to articulate it.
I’m afraid that the Iraqis will end up being their own worst enemy, along with the “America-is-the-root-of-all-problems” Democrats.
25-30 years of total despotic rule cannot be overcome in 5 years.
We won the war, but lost the occupation in the first 6 months. After that, we were never able to recover.
Folks, you all need to take your rose-colored glasses off.
We would need 500,000 troops, which we don’t even have available, to begin to get real control of Iraq.
The Muslims (Sunni and Shia) are willing to kill themselves and at the current rate of attrition they have a limitless supply of young people to recruit from. There is an old adage about starting a line of Chinese walking into the ocean, and it would never stop because of the growth rate of China. It is the same with the Jihad recruiters. They have a never ending supply of young men to recruit.
We can’t convinve the religious rulers to put a damper on the violence. Without that, there is no hope in Iraq.
I expect this midterm report to be very ugly.
And I will abandon them. Someday, Americans will look back at Iraq and rue the day they disengaged.
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