How many U.S. troops will remain in Iraq?

WASHINGTON - If Senate Democrats could enact their plan for Iraq, how many American troops would remain there?

That’s not a question to which Democratic leaders gave a precise answer Tuesday.

Its all hypothetical. The Democrats don't have a plan either for withdrawal or for that matter the moment beyond it. And the MSM wants us to take them seriously? Yeah, right.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

It's a dumb question anyway. Who cares "how many" U.S. troops are stationed in Iraq at some given time? What if the number is 135,832? What if it's, instead, 123,905? Which number is "correct"? This makes for a nonsensical discussion.

There's no real valid reason for a congressman to have some sort of set position on "how many soldiers should be stationed in country X" in the first place. That we've reached this point only illustrates the absurdity of the disingenuous Democrat faux-argument re: Iraq in the first place. This reporter made the mistake of taking their phony arguments at face value and trying to pin down their insincere positions.

The notion of Congress trying to write a bill specifying the number of troops that ought to be stationed in a location in which there is ongoing conflict and flux is pretty fricking stupid. Instead of taking the bait and wading into these shallow, shallow waters to discuss the Democrat "position", we should instead be simply ridiculing it for the insular and self-serving political posture that it is.

O.K., so the Moonbats (and the Methodist Church's left wing GBCS) want all U.S. troops withdrawn from Iraq...but the actual language of the proposed unconstitutional legislation would only reduce the number of troops and severely restrict their mission parameters.

As Rush asked on his show today, "when are the Moonbats going to realize that they are being played for fools?"

And then the Hildebeast wants to restrict them to their bases-- where they will lose the initiative and just be targets for mortars and rockets. As the Romans knew, you use (fighting) men to protect walls as much as walls to protect men. And in Nam, the best protection for our bases was to have grunts out in the bush taking the fight to Charlie. But the Liberals only learned one thing from Nam-- how to throw the game!

How many in the near future depends on the upcoming elections. How many in the long term depends on demand for oil, but it won’t actually matter since it won’t be producable and there will be worldwide shortages. Forever.

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