US Forces to Pull out of Iraq

10-13-06 | Scott Malensek

[Blackrain4xmas]

I do not think that the Iraqis or the world are prepared to watch what happens when Dems and insurgents accomplish the mission of getting US troops out of Iraq asap.

If they think the TV is ugly to watch now...just imagine watching Baghdad turn into 1980's Beirut. Imagine watching tens or even hundreds of thousands of people dying. Imagine watching hundreds of thousands or millions fleeing. And imagine trying people trying to convince themselves that abandoning the Iraqi people to terrorist insurgents was a good thing to do.

This is the difference between chess players and checkers players.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

One person is calling for a British troop pullout and suddenly the war's over and everybody's going home? Yeah, right.

[.cnI redruM]

Nice article. Where's the link?

[HostileTerritory]

No kidding. This article is going to have the most undeserved clicks of anything on FR today.

[huck von finn]

Link?

[jrooney]

The British General in question is known to be too political and left leaning in his politics. The British soldiers in iraq are said to be very upset with his comments and disagree all the way up the chain of the command. It is being rumored he is going to be replaced because of playing politics.

[capitalist229]

IBTZ

[SF Republican]

The 1990-2006 War in Iraq might soon be over. Bill Clinton had our troops there for 8 years? News to me.

[Antoninus]

Should be in blogs...

[Alberta's Child]

President Bush Sr. could have removed Saddam in 1991. He was afraid to do so for fear of its results. When he made that decision, the soldiers and Marines currently fighting and dying in Iraq were only 2 years old. Now, they’re 18 years old and fighting a war that should have been fought and ended 16 years ago. Back then, President Bush Sr. followed the post-Vietnam American populist strategy, “Let’s get the hell outta there, let the insurgents win, abandon Iraq to chaos, and leave the problem for the next generation to face.”

This is an overly simplistic view of the issue. Bush #41 didn't "fear the results" at all -- he knew the results . . . which is why his position was thoroughly consistent with the strong public stand (adamant opposition to the use of military forces to engage in "nation-building") taken by Governor George W. Bush when he was running for the White House in 2000.

As far as this issue is concerned, Bush 41 looks more brilliant by the day.

[Blackrain4xmas]

http://www.securitywatchtower.com/archives/004168us_forces_to_pull_out_of_iraq.html#trackbacks

[OESY]

"Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight - wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and never will lose a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans."
-- George S. Patton, Speech to the Third U.S. Army, March 24, 1944

[dfwgator]

So do you think we should have just gotten out of Germany once Adolf put a bullet in his brain?

[Blackrain4xmas]

read the entire article

[listenhillary]

I would recommend reading the article. Sounds as if the writer is disgusted with not finishing the job.

[dfwgator]

I was responding to #11's comments, not the article.

[listenhillary]

Read the article. It will be the whim (however short sighted) of the US voter that pulls the plug on the war.

[Yo-Yo]

According to Johns Hopkins University there already has been 650,000 deaths in Iraq since 2003. That's over 600 people a day, every day, since the invasion.

How much worse can it get?

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[RobbyS]

We did have troops in Saudi Arabia. The major problem is that we really don't have a competent ally in Southwest Asia, except for Israel. Now we hear the anti-war crowd turning on Israel, our only certain ally in that region.