According to a Sept. 5th article in The New York Times, an independent commission has said that a realistic timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq would be roughly 12 to 18 months. This article comes just one day after another Times article reported President Bush saying a troop reduction was possible. This news might seem reassuring to those who oppose the war in Iraq, but it also gives the American people the image that US armed forces are making substantial progress in Iraq. I'm not trying to be overly cynical, but we need to remember that another independent commission said the same exact thing back in February.
With all the talk lately concerning Bush's "legacy in history," it's a little hard to take reports like this too seriously. We've been hearing reports concerning a timetable withdrawal from Iraq for over a year now, and so far none of the estimates seem to be correct. It's also probably no coincidence that these reports are coming out just weeks before the big Patreaus report is due. Personally, I won't be taking these reports seriously until I can decide that it isn't all conjecture and hearsay. It's one thing to say you can do something, but it's another to actually back up those claims. Lately it seems that our government hasn't been doing a great job of following up on its preliminary "estimates."
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I don't think even mentioning a full length time table would be hard to come by, it needs to be done in stages with realistic goals, not made up goals, that seem to be out there floating around....
It seems to me we broke Iraq so we should have to fix it, the only problem is we don't have a f-ing clue how to do that, and all of this idle talk of withdrawing seems cruel.
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