So America is withdrawing from Iraq

[j2k4]

What I don't understand is giving a specified date for extraction (Aug. 31, 2010.). Now the remaining terrorists simply know they need to lay low for the remaining 18+/- months until we're gone.

Then do what exactly?

Oh, let's just not worry about it; it'll be fine - we've got B.O.

Actually, this isn't news; we've been leaving Iraq all along, but citing a date was viewed as tactically stupid.

B.O. believes differently, and hey, it's his show, so.

[clocker]

"Viewed as tactically stupid" by whom?
And what's this talk about "we've been leaving Iraq all along" about?
In Sept. of last year Bush insisted that he was maintaining troop levels until he was out of office and whoever followed him would be responsible for drawing down the level.
You know, the old "my way or the highway" doctrine so beloved of the Repubs.

So, let's get this straight...for 6 years Bush/Cheney insisted that the US was going to stay in Iraq till a "victory" was achieved.
In 2007, troop levels are increased as part of the famous "surge".
In 2008, Bush insists that troop levels will remain stable as long as he's in office.
None of this even accounts for the rising level of "contractors" brought in by family friendly companies like Haliburton and Blackwater, who's numbers make them the second largest force in Iraq, second only to the US military.

And yet you say "we've been leaving all along".

What an interesting grip on the English language you have.
Cause you see, to most people that doesn't indicate "leaving" in the normally perceived sense.

[j2k4]

"Viewed as tactically stupid" by whom?

Anyone and everyone with a brain.

This of course leaves the libs out of it.

And what's this talk about "we've been leaving Iraq all along" about?
In Sept. of last year Bush insisted that he was maintaining troop levels until he was out of office and whoever followed him would be responsible for drawing down the level.
You know, the old "my way or the highway" doctrine so beloved of the Repubs.

So, let's get this straight...for 6 years Bush/Cheney insisted that the US was going to stay in Iraq till a "victory" was achieved.
In 2007, troop levels are increased as part of the famous "surge".
In 2008, Bush insists that troop levels will remain stable as long as he's in office.
None of this even accounts for the rising level of "contractors" brought in by family friendly companies like Haliburton and Blackwater, who's numbers make them the second largest force in Iraq, second only to the US military.

And yet you say "we've been leaving all along".

What an interesting grip on the English language you have.
Cause you see, to most people that doesn't indicate "leaving" in the normally perceived sense.

Nobody (John McCain's remark aside) said we'd stay in Iraq beyond the job's being done.

To assert otherwise is a universal liberal affliction.

In any case, we shall see what happens.

EDIT:

Y'know, it just occurred to me to note the lack of political signage above my computer, you B.O. fan-boy.

There is none now, has not been, nor will there ever be.

[clocker]

Your not counting the Fox News screensaver, huh?

"Nobody said we'd stay in Iraq beyond the job's being done"...oh, that's a good one.
Nobody ever said what "being done" meant either, did they?
Just a tad bit open ended for my taste, thank you.

[devilsadvocate]

Then do what exactly?

Oh, let's just not worry about it; it'll be fine - we've got B.O.

You don't worry. Me, I want to know just what these "terrorists" are going to "just lay low" for, seeing as I'm being told that will be the result of telling them we are drawing down.

What goal would they try to achieve, apart from getting US troops out of their part of the world, that they are not trying to achieve now?

Let's just for the sake of debate say that these "terrorists" will lay low until our troops leave. Wouldn't that mean our troops are safer while the draw down process happens? Wouldn't keeping it a secret mean our troop would come under more attacks?

The only thing as far as I can tell that we did to the actual terrorists that attacked us by being in Iraq, was to save them travel time and costs.

As for the waiting till the job was done, well the job we actually, supposedly went in to do was achieved 6 years ago, and since then I've been told continuously that we have achieved the democracy goal that replaced the original "imminent danger removal" goal. So just what exact job has not been finished anymore than it would be if we stayed there indefinitely?

[j2k4]

Your not counting the Fox News screensaver, huh?

"Nobody said we'd stay in Iraq beyond the job's being done"...oh, that's a good one.
Nobody ever said what "being done" meant either, did they?
Just a tad bit open ended for my taste, thank you.

"Fox News screensaver"?

Where have you seen one of those?

"Being done" in Iraq was a constant subject of discussion between the media and the Bush administration; I can only believe you never turned on a television between the Bush and Obama inaugurations in order to claim you missed all of that.

Your taste aside, of course.

[j2k4]

Oh, let's just not worry about it; it'll be fine - we've got B.O.

You don't worry. Me, I want to know just what these "terrorists" are going to "just lay low" for, seeing as I'm being told that will be the result of telling them we are drawing down.

What goal would they try to achieve, apart from getting US troops out of their part of the world, that they are not trying to achieve now?

Let's just for the sake of debate say that these "terrorists" will lay low until our troops leave. Wouldn't that mean our troops are safer while the draw down process happens? Wouldn't keeping it a secret mean our troop would come under more attacks?

The only thing as far as I can tell that we did to the actual terrorists that attacked us by being in Iraq, was to save them travel time and costs.

As for the waiting till the job was done, well the job we actually, supposedly went in to do was achieved 6 years ago, and since then I've been told continuously that we have achieved the democracy goal that replaced the original "imminent danger removal" goal. So just what exact job has not been finished anymore than it would be if we stayed there indefinitely?

OMG, Obama has failed to assuage your concern.

For quick relief, please access Joe Biden's website-

Wait, I have the number right here...

[clocker]

"Being done" in Iraq was a constant subject of discussion between the media and the Bush administration; I can only believe you never turned on a television between the Bush and Obama inaugurations in order to claim you missed all of that.

Oh, that's rich..."a constant subject of discussion between the media and the Bush administration"...like there was ever an actual give-and-take between the two.
The last time Bush gave any clear indication about how the war was going was his famous "Mission Accomplished" fiasco in 2003.

For the next five years his administration never gave a single concrete example of what the ultimate goal or end point might be.
Rather than define the mission in any clearcut fashion, Bush spent all his energy trying to define those who questioned him as unpatriotic and cowardly.

You are in fact, fond of the same tactic.
Having broadly stated that the Obama financial aid legislation is going to be the biggest disaster in American history, you refuse to provide any metrics by which to gauge it's success/failure.

So, much like Bush- who's war would be over whenever he said it would be- Obama is a failure simply because you say he is.

[devilsadvocate]

OMG, Obama has failed to assuage your concern.

For quick relief, please access Joe Biden's website-

Wait, I have the number right here...

Skizo said all the terrorist have to do is lay low until we leave if given a time frame. I asked a simple question of Skizo about this assertion.

I will expand on the already unanswered question.

What is it that the terrorists would wait to do now they have been given a time frame that they wouldn't do if we just pulled out unannounced?

[bilkenter]

Some people like skizo said that terrorists have to lay low for a while till we are gone... actually u guyz dont leave the middle east... u can interrupt anytime u want even if terrorists show off there...U guyz had 520000 soldiers in saudi arabia probably still do..... still have an base in UAE and in other various countries...So Nothing big can take place in the iraq... only minor bombings


You guyz went Iraq for various reasons... the ones i can count...
1)The aggressive behaviour of Saddam to endanger the middle eastern countries which could rise the price of oil dramatically... u wanted to put an end to this...
2)Kinda to save the shii people from the totalitarian sunni dictatorship (sunnis was minority yet ruling class...)
3)Because of Al qaeda and Saddams support for Anwarul islam who was in touch with Al qaeda...

Impacts of this withdrawal?
1) U guyz kinda gave Bin Laden and people like Mullah Omer the right to praise themselves off this withdrawal. Mobilization will be easier...
2)Shii movements in the region might get higher and some Shiis might start to call others to stand up and fight... leading the shiis in the saudi arabia to be separated from saudi arabia...
3)Wahhabis in the saudi arabia will try to wahhabize the iraq...
4)Taliban will easily use the black market in the iraq via drugs or other staff... so heroin will be easy to find people will be poisoned easily et cetera...

My personal view on the matter on a bigger scale... is that Al qaeda or the similar organizations achieve the desired effect... and get nuclear arms to fight back.... and bring this order into an end... why? because the worlds richest three persons wealth is equal to the gdp of worlds poorest 48 countries... and one more thing... damn law is there to protect the riches of those privilidged.... anyway last part was kinda irrelevant though..

nice to be back... luv this place no matter how they see me...