[Mr. Silverback]

The vote to surrender was on Friday.

If you're really going to claim it wasn't a surrender vote, it would be gentelmenly of you to answer this question:

You are the operations officer for Al-Qaeda. The United States announces that it will withdraw its troops from Iraq on a timetable from March 2008 to September 2008, and do so no matter what conditions on the ground are. What tactics do you adopt in response?

[WhiteGuy]

The vote to surrender was on Friday.

You are referring to the "withdrawal date" provision of this bill. I was not aware that was a part of the bill when I made my original comment.

However, isn't it reasonable to consider this argument: consideration of a "withdrawal timetable" makes sense if for no other reason than to force the iraqis to start taking some responsibility for their own country? Maybe a little tough love is in order? I don't know, just a couple of thoughts......

As for your question about being an operations officer for "alqaeda".............

I have no idea, nor do you. All we have is speculation. However I would speculate that if the iraqi military was a larger and better trained fighting force the "insurgent activities" might be repelled. another idea would be for the iraqi's to begin a military draft. Ship a couple of hundred thousand men to Paris Island for six weeks of combat training then send them home to fight for their country.