Let's see, the Dems initiate all their plans.
1. They split the country into three parts - Biden
2. They pull out ASAP to Okinawa - Murtha
3. They encourage the locals to get more involved.
3a. Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia move to help the Sunnis.
3b. Iran moves in to help the Shites.
3c. Turkey moves in to crush the Kurds.
4. Blame Bush!!!
Saaaaaaay...call those Diebold people!
They're already saying they will pull back to the bases, and let the Iraqis do the work. Like bill clinton, who bombed civilian targets in Yugoslavia from 20,000 feet, causing many innocent deaths, they will not want to risk casualties. But there's no way to do the job without some casualties. So either they will huddle on the bases, an empty symbol of staying there, or they will be pulled out.
Maybe all it will make to force them out will be a Kobar Towers incident, which we will likely get if we leave the terrorists free to run around the country basically unopposed.
Who cares?
"been assured by Democrat congressional leaders during a recent visit to Washington"
I need a question answered. Obviously, the Democratic congressional leaders did not talk with Iraqi leadership post election. So do they have a right discussing foreign diplomacy about how they are going to handle policy, prior to them being elected? This seems to me that they are jumping the chain of command. Is this appropriate?
Do Congressmen have a right to discuss/negotiate foreign policy on behalf of the United States? I thought that was reserved for the President and his Cabinet/Ambassadors only.
I know I'll probably get flamed for committing heresy on FR by saying so, but I think there's a certain ring of plausibility in Talabani's reportage:
I'd say only about half of the senatorial Dhimmos can be categorized as true-believing moonbat, tinfoil-wearing, MoveOn types. The other half are shrewd enough to see just how much a moonbat-endorsed campaign helped "Red Ned" Lamont win the Nutmeg State.
In other words, Lieberman's easy romp showed the "sensible" Dhimmo leaders pretty much how the bulk of voters across our fruited plain would react to a Murtha-style redeployment. And that likely reaction ain't the least bit pretty, from the Dhimmo's point of view.
So whatever wild enthusiasm there might formerly have been in high-level Dhimmo circles for a "bellum interruptum" in Iraq, I imagine it's gotta be damped way down as of now.
The “Americans made big mistakes in Iraq,” he said, including the rejection of its leaders hopes to form an interim Iraqi government immediately after the March 2003 invasion rather than occupying the country for more than a year.
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Correction: The Powell/Armitage/Bremer state dept made big mistakes in Iraq, including the rejection of its leaders hopes to form an interim Iraqi government immediately after the March 2003 invasion.
(You recall that DOD's Gen'l Garner came in and started talking with people with plans for a quick interim Government set up and led by Iraqis, and then Bremer came in, revamped the Iraqi governing council into a bigger and less effective advisory board; Bremer also madethe fateful disbanding the army decision, which made tens of thousands of baathist soldiers unemployed instead of on our side ... the rest is history.
Irony of ironies - IF RUMSFELD'S "LITE" STRATEGY WAS PURSUED, WE'D BE OUT OF THERE BY NOW.
Those Iraqis are going ot learn a hard lesson real soon ~ that is that the Democrats have quite a tolerance for genocide ~ way beyond what Saddam Hussein inflicted.
Well, it's a good thing that democrats are so honest and trustworthy.
Last time I checked...THE POTUS DECIDES THESE MATTERS...NOT THE F'N LIBERAL CONGRESS.
Wait a minute -- BUSH is the Commander-in-Chief, not the Democratic Party! WHAT RIGHT DO THEY HAVE to determine when our troops leave???????? Even if they do try to defund the war effort, doesn't Bush have a say in whether or not they can do that?
Democrats never pull out quickly.....they abort.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told colleagues at a closed meeting yesterday morning that she, too, would advocate an immediate troop withdrawal, according to several who attended.
Well that's just ducky! Those honorable Democrats can always be counted on to keep their word!!
Nancee
By the way Talibani, Dems lie.
When did Congress become the Commander In Chief of the US Armed Forces so that they can decide when troops do anything?
Well, they better go ahead and stick Hussein's head through a noose while they still can, because if the Sunni mobs break him out of stir after we leave, his life's not worth a plugged dinar...
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