BUSH PLEDGES TO WITHDRAW TROOPS IF ASKED BY IRAQ

Drudge Report ^ | 01/27/05 | Matt Drudge

[Minus_The_Bear]

BUSH PLEDGES TO WITHDRAW TROOPS IF ASKED BY IRAQ

President Bush said in an interview on Thursday that he would withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq if the new government that is elected on Sunday asked him to do so...

[BobS]

"I like your alternative suggestion :)"

It goes farther. Imagine a big agricultural industry fertilized by scumbags. Interspersed with oil derricks, since Iraq has more oil than Saudi Arabia. It will have as green a countryside as Kansas had when I lived there. And you can smell the mercaptans from the natural gas.

[davidosborne]

Not to mention the fact that the IRAQI people are COUNTING on us NOT to abandon them, until they can provide for their own security... I don't think we disagree at all, I realize, I may have been a little harsh on my initial response, I just don't want anyone to get the impression that if some whacko future government in Iraq tells us to leave before the security situation is under control, that we WILL NOT DO SO, as it would not be ours or anyones best intrest to do so, so please accept my humble apology.

FReegards,

David

[davidosborne]

Quick, write it up, send it to the UN for immediately approval ! Make sure you CC to Syria, as they are the head of the Human Rights Commission !

Im quite sure they will act swiftly to approve this measure !

LOL !

[octobersky]

LOL. The Sunday night sirens are a bit early this week.

[proud American in Canada]

"but it always cracks me up!"

LOL, me too. :)

[BobS]

The US would still need to transport those tree-limb-chopping machines over there. And the trucks that those machines blow things into. And the fertilizer trucks that churn it into the earth 3 feet down and up.

Men that lost family members will be given the right to work this equipment before other applicants. For good pay.

It needs to be efficient before we barter it off.

If the UN sticks their nose in at this time, they might become fertilizer.

[FBD]

>"We should pull out of Germany FIRST!"<

Ditto for Bosnia/Kosovo, and Macedonia, and Japan, and about 1/2 of the other 60 countries we've had our troops stationed in for years and years.

I'm betting we'll be in Iraq for decades.

[Marysecretary]

Your gas is cheap! We're paying 2.07 in town. Of course it's a college town and we always pay more for gas and groceries here. Grrrr.

[BobS]

Sure. We'll be in Iraq forever because we made a major friend with their people. But we insist it be on bases the Iraq government contracts to us as invited guests only. Nothing esle will do.

[FBD]

No problem with being friends with the Iraqis, or helping them establish their democracy, at this point.

My problem is that we never seem to be able to pull our miltary out of a country, once we go in. We currently have active militaryy in something like 60 countries, (counting our territories), and we now have FOL's in four South American countries, including El Salvador and Caruba.

Can you name any countries we've removed our military from besides France and Vietnam? Oh... and Somalia, where the Klintonistas were playing Meals on Wheels, like we are in Indonesia now. But what are we still doing in Bosnia-Kosovo, and Macedonia? Japan and Germany?

John Quincy Adams said it best in his speech "Monsters To destroy":

Monsters to Destroy
John Quincy Adams 1821

http://www.thisnation.com/library/jqadams1821.html

"She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom."

[HairOfTheDog]

That's not new, Drudge, you alarmist fool. He said that of the interim government when it was implemented.

[camelontheceiling]

Bush Says Iraqi Leaders Will Want U.S. Forces to Stay to Help

"A fundamental question also that I think a lot of Iraqis understand - and I do, too - is how do we make sure the Iraqi citizens view U.S. troops as helpers, not as occupiers," [Bush] said. "And to the extent that a coalition presence is viewed as an occupying force, it enables the insurgents, the radicals, to continue to impress people that the government really is not their government, and that the government is complicit in having their country occupied.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/politics/28prexy.html?pagewanted=2

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"The one thing people got to understand here is you got to have two faces" in Iraq, said Sgt. 1st Class Corey Myers, who was Hoe's platoon sergeant. "One as a friend -- as a helper -- and one as a soldier. And you got to be able to switch faces in a second."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42896-2005Jan27.html

[Dick Bachert]

May they ask us to leave quickly, before the neocon chickenhawks shed one more drop of American blood in a futile effort to unite a nation which ought to be THREE separate nations based on the religion of the populace.

[BobS]

This is my own argument with Germany. Why are we there except for fast dates with nice frauleins? There are nicer and prettier devotchkas in Poland that don't use bad words and behave like women should in nice company. And those people want us to move in among them. It must cost $10B USD to support Deutsche bases to toss into a money hole.

[FBD]

LOL! Good one.
Yeah, Poland would love to have us.
The only thing is, I guess we have an excellant hospital at Ramstein Air Force base, which is closer to the Iraqi theater. Pretty important to be able to get our guys first rate care quickly, when they are in critical condition. Other than that, yeah...It would be great to see our miltary pull out of there.

Have a good weekend, my FRiend.

Regards.

[Rebelbase]

I vote for "B". (Cause that's the way I think it's going to happen)

[PowerPro]

Ummmm... this policy was announced in early 2004. This isn't news.

Also on Drudge... President Reagan shot by John Hinckley... /sarcasm off

[jaykay]

Much of the Sunnis' military advantages are gone, the tanks, artillery, helicopters and that chemical weaponry they used on the Kurds. They should lose a civil war with the Shiites and Kurds, although it would be a long ugly bloodbath. It isn't going to happen anyway, this weekend's voting is to elect an assembly to draft a constitution, not actually take over full control of the country and kick us out.