Comments on: It's Official: U.S. Timetable In Iraq OK'd

Iraq's Presidential Council Signs Off On Security Pact Giving U.S. 3 Years To Leave

[evian_ycnan]

Yeah, but we can leave sooner...

[earache4]

I think the planning for post Saddam was bad. I don''t think you get much Iraqi support if you come in,"clean up the town" and drive off. When the strategy changed to come in, "clean up the town" and stay, the Iraqi''s can develop their government and train their military/police forces. The locals need to feel safer if they''re going to weed out insurgents and foreign terrorists.
Posted by promaclaura at 10:01 AM

Planning? What planning?

[briannorwood]

My, my! What a difference 30 days makes! See, last month, any Democrat who mentioned "timetable" was committing treason by telegraphing our intentions to the "enemy".

Now what are all these GOP chicken hawks going to do now?

[hermitdave]

GOSH how nice of the people of Iraq to let the illegal invaders leave.

[bailthisout]

why are we still there? There were no WMDs and no 9-11 link. The justification that Saddam was evil is not even valid any longer, since declassified documents revealed earrlier the Reagan gave Saddam the ok to gas the Kurds in exchange for rights to export our farm products to Iraq. Real hero, that Reagan wasn''''t he?
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Posted by getoffmine1

why are we still there? YOU MAKE IT SOUND LIKE YOU ARE THERE, PLUS YOU SHOULD WRITE AN EMAIL AND ASK THE PRESIDENT ELECT THIS SAME QUESTION BECAUSE HE CAMPAIGNED FOR IMMEDIATE REMOVAL.
What do you think?

[getoffmine1]

why are we still there? There were no WMDs and no 9-11 link. The justification that Saddam was evil is not even valid any longer, since declassified documents revealed earrlier the Reagan gave Saddam the ok to gas the Kurds in exchange for rights to export our farm products to Iraq. Real hero, that Reagan wasn''t he?

[hotpaulie]

Democracy is no longer the goal of Iraqis...if it ever was. Now, they just want the U.S. out!

[hotpaulie]

Yea the next three years will not be pretty in Iraq. The bombings will continue as usual...

[tawpdawg111]

oops wrong article

[tawpdawg111]

1.1 BILLION SHARES OUTSTANDING AT 5 BUCKS A SHARE...sorry for the caps.

America can BUY this company for 5.5 billion, install competent leadership for a reasonable salary and produce electric vehicles with the EV technology they buried in 1995 and tell the sheiks to lube with their oil and pound sand, putting MILLIONS of Americans to work on new and innovative industry, all for a fraction of the LOAN amount.

Problem solved.

NEXT!

[lemonskink]

Bush will not be living at his "beloved" ranch when he leaves in January. According to Missus Boosh, they''ll have a tough Christmas this year, as they spend their Christmas money on a new house in Dallas. The ranch was a nice backdrop for the horror movie Bush put this country through. They''ll have billions in future years once dumbed down America forgets about them. This money will be used to groom more evil Booshes of course who can infiltrate the government.

[nikosk11]

Next time you see a Soldier, Airmen, Marine or Seaman - just say thanks - or will you belittle them and then tell them they fought an illegal war, etc?

Posted by BailThisOut at 11:00 AM : Dec 04, 2008

Bush/Chenney junta are pleased with themselves. Our brave are suffering. The "deep pocket" defense contructors are laughing all the way to the bank, and we - the little p*e*e ons - arguing about everything.

The fact of the matter is, countries like Iraq will NEVER have democracy. NEVER. That is the nature of the beast and I don''t give a $hit what Bush & junta is trying to stuff down our throats. We, as a country, are in a divided mess caused by the lies of this yellow coward.

[bailthisout]

THANK GAWD THAT THE REPUBLICON SURGE HAS WORKED SO WELL, WE WOULD BE FIGHTING HERE ON MAIN STREET IF WE
HAD NOT WON THE WAR IN IRAQ?
REPUBLICON"s SHOULD ALL BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES!
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Posted by pythoncharly

All those troops that are Republican should be ashamed of themselves. Pathetic how you label our fighting men and women securing your freedoms. You mock them for their sacrafice. You are no better than those terrorists. Shame on you.

[bailthisout]

Next time you see a Soldier, Airmen, Marine or Seaman - just say thanks - or will you belittle them and then tell them they fought an illegal war, etc?

[jn122736]

The surge never really stopped the violence in Iraq. All it did was cause the insurgents to switch their focus to Afghanistan.

Now that everyone is talking about transfering military personel and attention to Afghanistan the insurgents are again increasing violence in Iraq.

This can, and will, continue for years.

That is what happens when there is no specific government/country to fight.

The Iraq fiasco has NEVER been an actual war; legal or illigal.

[liberalme]

Bringing the bad guys out of the mountains to fight in the desert was a brilliant strategy. Thanks President Bush

Posted by BailThisOut

That''s exactly right. Things didn''t go as planned for the Bush regime and if you remember, when our allies figured out Iraq was a manufactured war, they pulled most, if not all of their troops.

When the Bush regime decided to invade Iraq--they pulled all their intelligence out of Afganistan--thus giving Bin Laden a free ride out of Tora Bora.

The United Stated cannot take on all terrorists on their own nor can we be the agressor as we have been in Iraq. The world need unity of the UN and all of their intelligence as well.

By not holding Bush responsible for the Iraq war, we have done a great disservice to over 4000 dead troops, over 100,000 maimed troops, over 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians and over 4 million displaced.

Bush has been a tragic, tragic assault on the world.

[promaclaura]

Sadam''''s long gone. Why are American troops still dying in Iraq. (by the way, that''''s an old worn out excuse as well)...


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Posted by earache4 at 09:26 AM : Dec 04, 2008


I think the planning for post Saddam was bad. I don''t think you get much Iraqi support if you come in,"clean up the town" and drive off. When the strategy changed to come in, "clean up the town" and stay, the Iraqi''s can develop their government and train their military/police forces. The locals need to feel safer if they''re going to weed out insurgents and foreign terrorists.

[bailthisout]

Bringing the bad guys out of the mountains to fight in the desert was a brilliant strategy. Thanks President Bush

[lobo62740]

Like I said--you may have some brains, but I doubt it.

[earache4]

You forgot my group, the one that wanted Saddam "ousted" the first time around, I wasn''t changing my stance just because it''s under George Jr. I wish Clinton would have, maybe we would not be so involved in the Middle East if we hadn''''t had to run the "no-fly zone" and set up all the bases in the Middle East to do it. OBL really hated that.
Posted by promaclaura at 09:23 AM

Sadam''s long gone. Why are American troops still dying in Iraq. (by the way, that''s an old worn out excuse as well)...