RogerWilco wrote:
ThomasK wrote:
Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.
GO FIGURE!
According to you it sounds like a great time to pull out U.S. troops.
That is the great dichotomy in their argument isn't it?
They say "It worked, it worked" but if anyone says "Great, pull even more troops out" they say "Oh, we can't do that, the gains are fragile....we don't want the violence to erupt again."
Uh-huh. That would make it like the cancer that goes into remission during massive amounts of chemo, but will come back if the chemo is stopped. So why not keep up the massive amounts of chemo? Because that will kill the patient even sooner. Choose your poison.
Which means it has yet to be determined rather it worked or not. And of course they ignore other things that were going on at the same time the surge was going on, like Iran pulling some strings behind the scenes.
None of that will mean anything, however, if the Iraqi's are really serious about getting a withdrawl timetable from us. If they say "Leave", we won't have much choice but to go...unless we want to be fighting those we are supposed to be protecting.
If the surge did in fact work, then now is the time to set withdrawl timetables, especially since we could use more troops in Afghanistan, a country that is going downhill fast again.
But you won't see Bush or McCain suggest that, which tells you how they REALLY feel about the so called success of the surge.
