seems like a reasonable thing to me...
Posted on 01/27/2005 7:06:00 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
Edited on 01/27/2005 7:24:37 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Old Kennedy walked right into it. Bush knows that no leader of Iraq is going to ask him to pull out until the insurgency is killed off. To do otherwise means these Iraqi leaders would be signing their own death warrants and unlike terrorists, they are not aching to die.
Thanks david for your usual incoherent response!!
Of course, but it needs to be reiterated due to 'Rats and Frogs joining the terrorists in a constant chorus of "big lies".
Thanks for the ping!
This is nothing new! He said exactly the same thing months ago!
IIRC, he said, in effect, the troops would stay in Iraq as long as the Iraqi's needed them.
Actually, he has no choice. If we claim that the Iraqi's have sovereignty (which we have), then we must repect such a request - otherwise the LIB/DEM/SOCIALISTS case will be "proven".
BTTT!!!!!!
bump...
The US shouldnt be supporting an Anti-Semtic government that does not allow Iraqi Jews or Iraqi Israelis to vote or come back to the country.
Sunni and the Shia can kill each other if they want. Why are we so afraid of a Civil War? It is better they kill each other than our troops.
It is bound to happen since Iraq is not a real country and was just created with the Divide and Conquer tactic of the British.
The only real allies we might have in Iraq are the Kurds and they will be screwed over as the Shias take over.
Once the vast majority of Iraqis validate our presence there, it'll be difficult for the press and others to call us "occupying oppressors."
And that's exactly what's gonna' happen.
No LIBERALS are NEVER pleased. They'll just find something wrong about it and whine on and on and on. NEVER offering any solutions, just whining.
Senator Kennedy is likely too drunk to be pleased. On any given day.
Yeah, I was thinking the same.
I think Colin Powell was asked this question many times and always came back with the same answer.
(paraphrasing) "If after the elections the new Iraqi Gov't asks us to leave, we will."
Same policy since the provisional govmt was stood up. No change. No big deal. No siren needed.
MS. HAMILTON: Mr. Secretary, the President makes no bones about the fact that when asked if the United States would withdraw troops or if the Iraqi government requested that we do so, he would. Could you elaborate a little bit more? Just, you know, where does that end decision rest? I mean, who ultimately decides if the Iraqi troops have been trained well enough, the Iraqi government is prepared to carry on? When -- you know, who decides? Is it the Iraqis? Is it us? When do we leave?
SECRETARY POWELL: It's the Iraqis who will decide. It was a controversial issue in the spring when people said, "Okay, you're going to stand up a government and you're going to call it sovereign" -- and I'm the one who caught the question, I forget where it was when I caught it. "But if they are sovereign -- "
A PARTICIPANT: On the Hill.
SECRETARY POWELL: On the Hill, yeah. "If they are fully sovereign, well, then can they turn around and ask you to leave? And if they did, would you leave?" And I said yes -- and a big controversy. And I said, "That's what sovereignty means, but I'm not worried about it because they don't have the capacity to protect themselves or to secure the country and they won't ask us to leave, they'll invite us to stay until they do have the capacity to do that," which is exactly what they did.
8-16-2004
Bears Sh&t in Woods, Says Study.
I should have made myself clear, it was called Sarcasm!
Bush has said this before this is not new. Why is Drudge and the MSM acting like this is news? He's said this numerous times that after the elections if the new government wants our troops to leave - he will start the process.
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