Why they're REALLY talking about a troop pull-down in Iraq

there's one thing you can definitely count on with bushco... nothing, and i mean NOTHING, they say has more than the tiniest grain of truth... cheney says the insurgency is floundering... then, talk of troop withdrawals is floated... meanwhile, the deadly violence in iraq continues to escalate... more and more people die... the constitutional process is repeatedly derailed... the kurds hold out for autonomous regions... the sunnis don't want to play ball... so, why should we be talking about decreasing u.s. presence...?

The dirty secret that President Bush refuses to share with a profoundly ambivalent America is that the US armed forces are stretched so thin in Iraq and around the world that the existing occupying force of roughly 130,000 people cannot be maintained beyond next year.

Because Bush based the 2003 invasion and follow-up occupation on the false promise of ease -- a flop of epic proportions for which not a single individual in authority has been held responsible -- the administration has had to scramble for more than two years to keep pace with a growing insurgency as a well as the gargantuan task of reconstruction for which America was not financially prepared.

Tours of duty were extended. The reserves were raided. The National Guard was raided. Military commitments in the rest of the world, including the fight against terrorism and the effort to establish stability in Afghanistan, were compromised. The American people were deceived about the true cost of this war. But all this juggling and deception hasn't been enough. The fact remains: The military cannot rotate troops out of Iraq as their tours end and rotate others in without drastic change and a policy switch that includes telling people the truth.

a "policy switch that includes telling people the truth...?" HA...! when pigs fly... this bunch is genetically incapable of telling the truth... there is no exception to their deception...

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