I really get tired of even covering it, and maybe I shouldn't.
Like that old game "Duck, duck, goose," and then the goose had to race you to the spot?
The American public is fed a steady FART MIST of withdrawal, withdrawal, withdrawal, ESCALATE, withdrawal, withdrawal, withdrawal, by the MSM FOOLEYS!
Sick of CHEWING on MSM SHIT and having to SMILE, Amurka?
"White House to Offer Iraq Plan of Gradual Cuts" by STEVEN LEE MYERS and THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — The White House plans to use a report next month assessing progress in Iraq to outline a plan for gradual troop reductions beginning next year... the goal of the planned announcement was to counter public pressure for a more rapid reduction and to try to win support for a plan that could keep American involvement in Iraq on “a sustainable footing” at least through the end of the Bush presidency.
The officials said the White House would portray its approach as a new strategy for Iraq, a message aimed primarily at... Congressional Republicans.
Administration officials involved in drafting the new strategy said the White House intended to argue that the troop increase ordered by Mr. Bush had succeeded on several levels... and had established the conditions for a new approach that would begin troop cuts in the first half of next year.
At the same time, the administration will use the occasion to argue that vital American interests in Iraq and across the Middle East require a sustained commitment of American forces and that any rapid withdrawal would be catastrophic for the United States and its regional allies.
[It is always the SAME FUCKING SONG and DANCE with this crew of fucking LYING MASS-MURDERING WAR CRIMINALS!!!]
It remains unclear how deeply the Bush administration would be willing to reduce troop levels beyond the current level in Iraq; officials said Mr. Bush would not decide... the troop increase must end next spring.
Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the No. 2 officer in Iraq, said Friday:
“The surge, we all know, will end sometime in 2008... and we will begin probably a withdrawal of forces based on the surge, [but] we must consider the complexity of the threat and deliberately reduce our forces based on the situation on the ground as well as the capability of the Iraqi security forces.”
[Expect MORE ESCALATION and that's it!
We are NEVER LEAVING, and I'm SMELLING a DRAFT, kiddos!]
General Odierno said the five additional brigades added this year under the president’s troop increase were likely to be... central to the internal debate on a “postsurge” strategy is the extent to which American troops would be able to ask Iraqi forces to take the lead on security missions in critical sections of the country, particularly in Baghdad.
Although no decision has been made about the full extent of the American combat mission next year, administration officials and military officers say the troops in Iraq would shift priorities.... They said the large contingent of Special Operations forces now in Iraq would continue missions to capture and kill terrorist and insurgent leaders, and to disrupt their networks.
[Are those some of the gunmen, et al., or is that all an invisible part of the war.
Hell, THEY ARE ALL INVISIBLE if you read the stinking Zionist-controlled Amurkn press!]
Under the new strategy, administration and military officials say, some American troops would be... shifted to still-contested areas or into noncombat missions.... the officials say they expect the strategy to call for American forces to retain a leading role at least well into next year.
Military officials said General Petraeus was still revising his calculations on what the exact mission of American troops should be, and how many would be required to carry it out.... In recent weeks, several military, diplomatic and administration officials have sought to change the focus of the review, saying the official benchmarks might not be the best measures of success in Iraq, as they do not weigh factors like the growing power of local leaders and the willingness of the population to demand political reconciliation in the central government.
[Moving the old goalposts again!
Burying them under rubble like Iraqis, huh, war criminal administration?]
The administration’s planning comes as.... Senior administration officials are already making a stark case against any congressionally mandated withdrawal of troops.
Arguing in a speech in New York on Thursday that chaos would follow an American withdrawal, the White House press secretary, Tony Snow, pointedly accused Democrats of ignoring positive developments on the ground in Iraq in their haste to end the American involvement.
Mr. Snow said in the speech, at the Union League Club:
“Unfortunately, a number of key Democrats, having perused polls indicating that the public has grown impatient or discontented with the war, have refused to contemplate victory. [I hope that the Democrats will] throw off election-season blinders and join us in finishing what the surge has begun.”
[Not me!
I don't want those bloody, murdering, fucked-in-the-head troops back here on my streets trying to kill me, knocking down my doors.
No, sireeee! Count me on the escalation wagon.
Send 'em over and let 'em die.
Let the Iraqis kill them, have your draft and take our kids away, just don't put the tired, overstressed, non-cared-for, PTSD vets on police and crowd control in our cities.
I don't want them back if they are going to be MARTIAL LAW TOOLS!]
