Report: U.S. and Iraq ‘close to a deal’ on October 2010 withdrawal timeline.
Report: U.S. and Iraq ‘close to a deal’ on October 2010 withdrawal timeline.
According to NBC News, the U.S. and Iraq are “close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010“:
The U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about three years later, two Iraqi officials said Thursday.
A U.S. official in Washington acknowledged progress has been made on the timelines for a U.S. departure but offered no firm date. Another U.S. official strongly suggested the 2010 date may be too ambitious. A timetable is part of a security agreement being negotiated by U.S. and Iraqi officials.
And senior U.S. officials in Baghdad and Washington told NBC News that any agreement on withdrawing American forces would not likely include a “specific timetable” but be based on “security conditions at the time.”
On Tuesday, President Bush dismissed Iraqi Prime Minister Malaki’s recent endorsement of a withdrawal timeline saying, “I talk to him all the time, and that’s not what I heard.”
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It’s not a timeline. It’s a general time horizon.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:07 pmdamn cj!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:09 pmyou beat me to the punch on the same comment I was going to make.
(:-D)
On Tuesday, President Bush dismissed Iraqi Prime Minister Malaki’s recent endorsement of a withdrawal timeline saying, “I talk to him all the time, and that’s not what I heard.”
Well Mr. Bush, if you had actually let Mr. Malaki speak instead of you jabbering away, you would have actually heard his opinion. Odd isnt it?
August 7th, 2008 at 2:10 pmWe couldn’t get out fast enough for me. It is a drain on our forces and our money. Let’s bring them all home!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:10 pmOf course it’s not what Maliki told you, you dufus chymp. He’s telling you one thing, the press another, the Iraqi public something else, and finally lying his ass off to his ‘coalition’.
You haven’t learned shit about anything, have you Mr. Chympident?!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:11 pmI don’t think it matters what anyone tells these clowns, they just go ahead and believe what they believe and act on those beliefs with no regard for what other people say or what the facts are.
My god! The President is a Troll!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:13 pmI don’t think it matters what anyone tells these clowns, they just go ahead and believe what they believe and act on those beliefs with no regard for what other people say or what the facts are.
My god! The President is a Troll!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:13 pmSo bush is surrendering . . . Who’da thunk it?
One Q: Why didn’t he do this say 4 years ago . . . ?
one A: oh, right. If he’d done that then Rove would have had nothing to work with during the 2004 campaign. Silly me.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:14 pmWell, that is where Osama is and he is the one that masterminded 9/11. At least we would be in the right country!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:16 pmIf, and it’s a BEEEG “If”, USer troops are withdrawn from Iraq, they will immediately be redeployed to Afghanistan.
This is not “ending” the war, it’s just relocating it.
How many “combat troops” are we talking about here? I reckon around 30-50K.
even if they are redeployed, still leaves 100k behind, guarding the ‘temporary’ permanent bases, the aircraft, men and materiel needed to effectively patrol the trans-caspian region and spread chaos and discord around the region.
The only circumstance under which the USers would pull out all-together after 2 years would be if they had established fixed bases CLOSER to the action in the old, Soviet ‘Stans, which is where all the remaining untapped oil in the world lies…
August 7th, 2008 at 2:16 pmMust be a presidential election cycle piece of propaganda. These are truly the sickest people I have witnessed in my short time here on Earth.
Everything they say is BS. Which is transparent.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:17 pmraynman Says:
I don’t think it matters what anyone tells these clowns, they just go ahead and believe what they believe and act on those beliefs with no regard for what other people say or what the facts are.
My god! The President is a Troll!
sheer brilliance
August 7th, 2008 at 2:17 pmlarkohio Says:
“Well, that is where Osama is and he is the one that masterminded 9/11. At least we would be in the right country!”
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I don’t think the 9/11 official account was the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Wanna buy a bridge?
August 7th, 2008 at 2:21 pmWhy is W such a CUT AND RUNNER?
August 7th, 2008 at 2:21 pmMr Pee; and just how many centuries or millenia does McPutz intend to keep the troops in Iraq?
You’re pissing into the wind- AGAIN!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:22 pmWhen God talked to Bush, Bush knew exactly what God said.
When Malaki talked to Bush, Bush didn’t hear what Malaki said.
Can we agree here that God speaks better English than Malaki?
Or is it that Bush lies a lot to both of them…
August 7th, 2008 at 2:24 pmWhen someone hears god speak to them, is that pschyzophrenia? How do those who don’t hear god’s english language voice make the distinction?
August 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pmOH NO, THE TERRRRRISTS, THE’RE WINNING!!!???!!?!!??!!!???!!!
CALL THE WAHHHHHMBULANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:39 pm.
Jon Stewart on this “Time Horizon” and the compliant MSM…
… and of course the B.S. in Bush’s mouth.
http://www.comedycentral.com/ videos/ index.jhtml?videoId=178638
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August 7th, 2008 at 2:43 pm#10 larkohio Says:
So when will OBL be on that wanted list?
When America realizes that 9/11 didn’t happen from Afghanistan, what will it mean if we’re still there?
If the military can charge OBL’s driver for material support and failed on conspiracy, why can’t they charge OBL?
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August 7th, 2008 at 2:49 pmSo, McCain doesn’t speak for the McCain Campaign, and Bush doesn’t speak for the Bush Administration.
Perfect.
Idiots.
PEACE
August 7th, 2008 at 3:02 pmThemis Says:
Keep in mind that Obama does not plan to “bring them all home.” Rather, he plans on “re-deploying” most of them to Afghanistan.
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Wonderful. That is what we should be doing. Bush has had a policy of retreat for the last 7 years when it comes to Al-Qaeda. With Obama as president we can finally get some payback on AQ and the Taliban, instead of closing bases all over the MIddle East and running from them like we’ve been doing.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:15 pmIt looks like we are in a strange period where we have two Presidents, one is the sitting pResident, Boy George, who is irrelevant and rightfully ignored, and the POTUS recognized by the world and 79% of Americans, President Obama.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pmSure sounds like an ARTIFICIAL TIMELINE to me. Errr, I mean “event horizon”.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:50 pmWhen the war criminal Bush ordered the bombing and invasion of Iraq, “shock and awe,” (just a euphemism for the massive doses of US terrorism against the Iraqi people) back in March 2003, and then occupied that benighted country, we won our “victory” in about three weeks. Bush should have just declared victory and gone home. Now, over five years later, John McQuack is babbling on about “victory” and declared a couple of days ago, that he “would win a war by winning it…” (whatever that means, if anything).
When McCain poses his rhetorical question about Senator Obama‘s readiness to lead by saying, “Is he ready to lead?”, the answer is obviously “Yes.” Senator Obama has already been leading for several months. Both McCain and Bush are following Obama’s foreign policy recommendations on Afghanistan and Iraq. So if McCain and Bush are already following the leader, then, obviously, Obama is the leader. Q.E.D.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:32 pmKeith Says:
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Sure sounds like an ARTIFICIAL TIMELINE to me. Errr, I mean “event horizon”.
Republicans will cross the event horizon on Nov.4.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:41 pmAh Dumbya, once a terrrrrist appeaser, always one.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:34 pm