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The ex-Marine is nothing more then a political prostitute at this point. Had he really spoken with our Army and Marine generals on down in Iraq a few months back there simply is no way he could ever pulled this frigen stunt off. He is a liar and has no honor.
What I find amazing is the fact for more then a year the plan was to reduce in numbers our footprint after the final federal election and government was put into place. The troop levels where clearly and repetively publisized to increase for the constitutional and federal election period then start to decline in early 2006, as ground conditions dictact. We have moved out of some 18 FOB's to date in the past four months or so, and handed these FOB's over to the Iraqi forces.
Last year say late summer I specifically remember reading projections saying we would downsize in spring of 2006 if the Iraqi forces where at the projected levels of efficiency.
So again. This whole pile of crap is nothing more then a Charade. And oddly even guys like Rush Limbo are not keeping up on what so many of us take for granted regarding condtions for downsizing, the 5 levels of Iraqi troop evalutions etc..
The world is living on mostly disinformation.

What I find amazing is the fact for more then a year the plan was to reduce in numbers our footprint after the final federal election and government was put into place.

EXACTLY!!! Much like las January when the insipid jFnK went on MTP,iirc, and said that after the election we needed to draw down our troops by 20,000. That, was of course, the plan all along. The extra 20 had been deployed for increased security for the election, with full intention of reducing the force by 20 shortly after the election.

I guess there are only a few out there that can remember anything past breakfast.