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2008-06-16 Iraq

Bush to pullout 30,000 troops from Iraq next July

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-06-16 19:17|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 HMMMM, CNN + MSNBC > PRESUMPTIVE DEM NOMINEE BARACK OBAMA, as POTUS, is reportedly still intend to withdraw all US milfors from Iraq within within 16 months, including an anticipated initial withdrawal of 50,000 - 70,000 US troops in first phase???

IOW, DUBYA + POTUS OBAMA? = RADICAL ISLAM CAN [subjectively]LOOK FORWARD TO A POTENTIAL REDUX OF UP TO 100,000 [rounded off] US troops, WID MORE REDUX TO OCCUR AFTERWARDS.

* IRNA > IT IS UNLIKELY THE USA WILL START ANY NEW CRISIS; + WE ARE IN A "WIN-WIN" SITUATION [Artic ostensibly refers to 5 +1 Econ confere BUT ATTITUDE COULD APPLY TO IRAN versus USA].

See also TOPIX > SADR MILITIA DESIRES ELECTION SHIFT IN IRAQ.

HMMMM, 2008 thru 2010 [minima] > in all likelihood, 'TIS MORE ASYMMETRICAL "POLITICAL JIHAD" THAN MILITARY/VIOLENT JIHAD. It still comes down to IRAN + MILITANTS-TERR GROUPS "GOING NUCLEAR" [Nuclear-StratWeaps Sufficiency] AMAP ASAP 2008-2012.

Again, as long as the USA = US-Allies mostly stays put [defensive] in Iraq + Afghanistan, etc., or downsizes as per POTUS Obama?, IRAN + MILITANTS-TERR CAN STILL GET THEIR NUKES + OTHER VITAL MIL CAPABILITIES TO SAVE THEIR JIHAD. The Islamists only need "Sufficiency" right now, i.e. a RELIABLE DELIVERABLE NUKE-WMD ARSENAL POTENT/STRONG ENUFF TO CAUSE US-ALLIED POLITICOS TO THINK TIMES BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY SORT OF UNILATERAL OR JOINT, OFFENSIVE OR RETALIATORY, ANTI-ISLAMIST MILACTION(S).

Both the USA + RADICAL ISLAM WILL HAVE TO CONTN REVIEW THEIR RESPECTIVE ORIGINAL INTENTIONS AND PREMISES FOR 9-11 + WAGING A GLOBAL WOT = GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD.

IMO, neither camp started this "ANTI-STATUS QUO/CURRENT ORDER" WOT or JIHAD ONLY TO END UP WID NO SIDE-CAMP ACHIEVING TOTAL VICTORY = TOTAL DEFEAT. Nobody Won, + Nobody Lost > WORLD NEITHER "PROGRESSES" = MOVES FORWARD, NOR BACKWARDS....WORLD IS SHAKEN, BUT NOT STIRRED [James Bond 007], ANY AND ALL WORLD PRE-9-11/WOT PROBS< ISSUES, + AGENDUMS, ETC. GO UNRESOLVED???

So, why attack the WTC-NYC on 9-11-2001 as per Radical Islam, or invade Iraq-Afghanistan, etc. as per Dubya TO BEGIN WITH IFF ANY AND ALL SIDES-CAMPS ARE GOING TO END UP LOSING = PC "NOT WINNING"???

AND NOW YOU KNOW, VIRGINA, WHY I WOULD CRITICIZE MY FORMER/OLD ANTI-SOVIET AGHAN WAR COHORT OSAMA, etc. > IFF YOU ARE GOING TO THE TROUBLE OF SENDING CIVILIAN AIRLINERS + OWN MEN CRASHING INTO US SKYSCRAPERS, WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST TURN THE PLANES INTO FLYING NUKE-WMD BOMBS AND NUKE NYC + WASHINGTON, DC TO BEGIN WITH??? Using airliners like that as on 9-11 is SPANKING = WARNING AN ENEMY, NOT WAGING WAR NOR KILLING AN ENEMY!

Amers should be grateful it wasn't worse.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-16 20:24|| 2008-06-16 20:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Is he aware that his term ends on Jan. 20, 2009?
I'm not sure he knows that the way he's talking.

Posted by Grusolet Sproing6197 2008-06-16 21:07|| 2008-06-16 21:07|| Front Page Top

#3 next July would be 2008

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-16 21:19|| 2008-06-16 21:19|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope he shifts a goodly number over to Afghanistan.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-16 22:56|| 2008-06-16 22:56|| Front Page Top

#5 JosephM, many Americans know how lucky we are that 9/11 wasn't much, much worse. I remember the concerns that day about the possibility of 50,000 deaths in the Twin Towers, not 3,000, and follow-up war gas or biological attacks. But if the troops can get even a few months rest and recreation before heading back into things, that would be good.

Anonymoose - off topic-- I sent trailing daughter #2 and temporary daughter off on a cross-country bike trip with the salt/sugar/baking soda formula you recommended. They left Cincinnati on Friday with their youth group. We're to meet them with a bike rack on the back of the minivan in Niagara Falls at the end of the month. I'll let you know how that worked out. :-)

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-06-16 23:29|| 2008-06-16 23:29|| Front Page Top

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