Posted on 11/30/2006 1:28:19 PM PST by shrinkermd
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Thursday his government's forces would be able to take over security command from U.S. troops by June 2007 -- a move which could allow the United States to start withdrawing.
"I cannot answer on behalf of the U.S. administration but I can tell you that from our side our forces will be ready by June 2007," Maliki told ABC television after meeting President Bush in Jordan.
Bush offered him strong backing in their talks and said Iraqi forces would be trained more quickly to take over but rejected suggestions he was seeking a "graceful exit" for U.S. troops.
According to a transcript released by ABC, the Iraqi leader said: "At the beginning of next year we will increase the training of our forces ... when they reach an acceptable level, we can talk about transferring power from multinational forces to Iraqi forces.
"I can say that Iraqi forces will be ready, fully ready to receive this command and to command its own forces, and I can tell you that by next June our forces will be ready."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
You are right and I think there is going to be one hell of a fight Iraq between then and now. I would also advise not put anything you want to feep on the border of Iran or Syria. That Bed n`Breakfast might be a bad idea for now.
Also, we going to keep some bases in Iraq after the main forces leave. That only makes sense for them and us.
That is about the time I want to start the withdrawals, so that works for me.
Later than that and I think it is too long.
I want to win. I could care less when the withdrawals take place if we have won.
If we haven't won and we just pull out, then we are telling all the parents of dead kids that their kid's sacrifice was a wasted effort.
One of the major comforts those parents have is that their kids were doing something necessary, right, and just.
Many of us have watched this movie before. So did most of the world. Has no on learned ANYTHING from our disgraceful pull out or Vietnam. "Peace with Honor." About as honest a term as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
It's amazing how quickly the RATS did their magic when they came into power! Oh, they had absolutely nothing to do with this? I want to see how quickly they come out and take credit.
In June 2007 nobody will remember this promise. See my tagline.
If he is smart, he will flee before SHTF.
The main danger is terrorism of Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is strong among Sunni. So in Sunni areas bring secularist Baath party back to power. After that you can leave.
Watching Donald Trump on CNBC "the big idea" right now. According to Donald: Bush has squandered the world's goodwill. Everyone hates the USA. We can't win in Iraq so we must leave now. Bush has made a climate of hatred in this country that is unprecedented. Divisiveness is Bush's fault. When we leave Iraq, a terrible tyrant will assume power who will make Saddam seem like a baby. Bush has surrounded himself with idiots. Rumsfeld is the worst. Condoleeza has not accomplished anything. Trump's friend, a Democratic congressman, reports an unprecedented hatred and divisiveness due to Bush. Bush is an utter failure as CEO. And he adds that he loves Ted Turner, he's great.
This must mean we are going to attack Iran this winter.
Thanks. I laugh reading what you wrote, but I'd pop a blood vessel if I had to watch it.
>>Good news if true.<<
In a perfect world it would not only be true but we would (at first) only pull back to bases within Iraq so we were prepositioned.
>>Watching Donald Trump on CNBC "the big idea" right now. According to Donald: Bush has squandered the world's goodwill. Everyone hates the USA. We can't win in Iraq so we must leave now. Bush has made a climate of hatred in this country that is unprecedented. Divisiveness is Bush's fault. When we leave Iraq, a terrible tyrant will assume power who will make Saddam seem like a baby. Bush has surrounded himself with idiots. Rumsfeld is the worst. Condoleeza has not accomplished anything. Trump's friend, a Democratic congressman, reports an unprecedented hatred and divisiveness due to Bush. Bush is an utter failure as CEO. And he adds that he loves Ted Turner, he's great.<<
And apparently Trump is a registered Republican.. if it wasnt so late I'd look up his donations.
http://www.christcenteredmall.com/news/politics/Republican-Race/trump-profile.htm
Right like
Full Text: Bush, Karzai News Conference
Las Vegas Sun ^ | September 26, 2006 at 10:50:12 PDT | The Associated Press
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708889/posts
Posted on 09/26/2006 6:58:29 PM CDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
(snip)
KARZAI: Ma'am, before I go to the remarks by my brother, President Musharraf, terrorism was hurting us way before Iraq or September 11. The president mentioned some examples of it.
These extremist forces were killing people in Afghanistan and around for years, closing schools, burning mosques, killing children, uprooting vineyards with vine trees, grapes hanging on them, forcing populations to poverty and misery.
They came to America on September 11, but they were attacking you before September 11 in other parts of the world.
We are a witness in Afghanistan as to what they are and how they can hurt. You are a witness in New York.
Do you forget people jumping off the 80th floor or 70th floor when the planes hit them? Can you imagine what it will be for a man or a woman to jump off that high?
Who did that? And where are they now? And how do we fight them, how do we get rid of them, other than going after them? Should we wait for them to come and kill us again?
That's why we need more action around the world, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, to get them defeated. Extremism, their allies, terrorists and the likes of them.
On the remarks of my brother, President Musharraf, Afghanistan is a country that is emerging out of so many years of war and destruction and occupation by terrorism and misery that they brought to us.
We lost almost two generations to the lack of education. And those who were educated before that are now older.
We know our problems. We have difficulties. But Afghanistan also knows where the problem is, in extremism, in madrassas preaching hatred, places by the name of madrassas preaching hatred. That's what we should do together, to stop.
The United States, as an ally, is helping both countries. And I think it is very important that we have more dedication and more intense work, with sincerity, all of us, to get rid of the problems that we have around the world.
(snip)
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So I guess he was lying then right?
The French for instance?
Not with "boots on the ground," IMHO. We don't have the manpower and we certainly don't have the political will. I think it would be interesting to watch an Israeli attack on the nuclear installations. Maybe we could exploit that situation to our benefit. In CHAOS there is opportunity....
Saddam will be dead by early 2007.
As for the rest, Maliki doesn't need the U.S. anymore. He's got enough Shia backing, especially from the more heavily armed contingents, to remain in power. Remember, this is Iraq, not a conventional battlefield. U.S. airpower and logistics are nice, but they pale in comparison to having men on the streets enforcing your will the old fashioned way. Once he controls the Ministry of the Interior and the military, and has the backing of the militias, he's the top dog in Iraq. With U.S. forces out of the way, he'll be free to pacify the Sunnis the Iraqi way.
The Kurds, who have their own police and military, will happily turn a blind eye to the central government's smackdown of the Sunnis. Aside from a few suppressed chuckles, you won't hear a peep out of them. They'll keep Kurdistan quiet, while Maliki cleans the rest of the house.
Maliki's really not in that bad of a position, he's just constrained by the fact that he can't move a company sized element across the street without U.S. approval. Once he has a free hand, that hand will be b%&$@slapping the Sunnis into line, and hard.
If Maliki said this, you can be sure that the people he's afraid of, al-Sadr and company, will be standing behind him with a daily calendar, tearing off each day as it passes.
If you think PM Maliki is worried one whit about the American people, you're wrong. He's worried about the Shia powerbrokers, and they won't let him forget about this statement, any more than a bookie would forget about a million dollar gambling debt.
Yep, we sshould be replacing him any minute now. Right after we get al-Sadr.
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