US OUT OF IRAQ BY END OF 2011.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has announced that the Bush/Cheney White House has agreed to Iraqi demands that US forces be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2011.
This may go beyond Barack Obama’s plan to withdraw US combat forces, while retaining a residual force.
It certainly goes far beyond John McCain’s position. Which is that any timetable for US withdrawal is tantamount to surrender.
And it appears to go beyond my view, which is to retain US bases in the essentially unpopulated region of western Iraq.
But this is a program that has been bollixed from the beginning.
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Wow.
How will the wingnuts spin this?
Badly.
lol
Great news!
Tell me more.
Welcome news, obvious news, whatever news. I can’t wait to see how the MSM ignores it, or how your buddy Steve Schmidt tries to spin it.
Why should we have bases, Bill?
What a way to begin this day! Carry on, McDuff…
Indeed.
Because of the map.
Forget nonsense about WMD and fantasies about democracy.
>marcus waldron:
Why should we have bases, Bill?
Aug 25, 2008 – 7:26 am
I’ll give him a call.
>Jack Aubrey:
Welcome news, obvious news, whatever news. I can’t wait to see how the MSM ignores it, or how your buddy Steve Schmidt tries to spin it.
Aug 25, 2008 – 7:24 am
When I know it.
>Len:
Great news!
Tell me more.
Aug 25, 2008 – 7:14 am
Thanks.
>Ann:
Badly.
lol
Aug 25, 2008 – 7:09 am
Given the ideological antipathy to a timeline, this will be quite interesting.
>Capitol Boy:
How will the wingnuts spin this?
Aug 25, 2008 – 7:05 am
Indeed.
>Jonas Blane:
Wow.
Aug 25, 2008 – 7:01 am
Hopefully the batshit necons commit seppuku and stop polluting the public dialogue, henceforth.
Does this mean we surrendered?
By claiming this is what they were working toward, essentially declaring “victory” although almost everything the neocons predicted has proven wrong. It will be a bitter pill for McCain this close to the election.
>Capitol Boy:
How will the wingnuts spin this?
Bases make sense for us, but a weak central Iraq government probably would find it hard to be abel to sustain credibility if it made that part of the deal. Another aspect of the political failure of the surge.
>Bill Bradley:
Because of the map.
Forget nonsense about WMD and fantasies about democracy.
>marcus waldron:
Why should we have bases, Bill?
We blew that deal.
I want to hear that McCain speech.
Prospero:
Does this mean we surrendered?
Aug 25, 2008 – 8:32 am
Soon enough …
Ask McCain.
He’s not talking to the press today.
Only to contributors and Jay Leno.