Bush to pull out troops just before the 2006 elections.

[johncoby2]

As reported earlier, troops will be pulled out by mid 2006, leaving a void in the country and most probably a civil war or Iran taking a major role in the country.

But, the parades and warm welcome of our troops will provide a great backdrop for all the republicans.

Bush will then say something like "Freedom is not free. The Iraqi people must now fight for their own freedom that the US was able to plant in their country."

[two gun sid]

1. That is so plausible. I can see it happening.

How low will these motherfucker stoop to hang onto power?

[rainy]

2. But, will we really leave, what about all that oil, can we really

spend billions to steal oil and then walk away or have we already given their oil to private investors? Maybe the Iraqis do not own their oil anymore.

[two gun sid]

7. I think the short term goal of the neocons is to hang onto power...

the oil can stay in the ground for now. It isn't going anywhere. Supply and demand will keep the price of oil at a level that insures gigantic profits. They'll let the Iraqi people fight themselves to exhaustion and destroy their country. Then we can swoop in, like white knights, and offer what's left of Iraq a deal that will help them rebuild. Of course that deal will be most advantageous to the oil companies.

[BlueJazz]

3. ...And the majority of the American Sheep will gobble it down.....

....like a staving man who just found a 6 course meal...

[Bucky]

4. Extremely doubtful

The PNAC agenda is to have a viable, deployable military force stationed in the middle of the oil regions until the wells run dry. With petroleum production peaking, control of black gold is too critical to be left up to the free market. They may try to lower the profile of our troops there, but I really doubt they'd leave Iraq open to domination by Iran. Hell, the reason Poppy left Saddam in power back in the first Gulf War was sprecifically to protect Iraq and Saudi Arabia from Iranian expansion.

By the way, I'd like to hear more about the Bay Area Democrats. I'm in the Montrose area, but I'm gonna be teaching out near Hobby next semester.

[vi5]

6. It won't be all of the troops...

..just enough for the repubs to use for their spectacle and get themselves reelected.

[vi5]

5. It's exactly what will happen and it will 110% work...

..it will go off without a hitch and nobody with any prominent media voice will call it for what it is.

[leveymg]

8. The only things we planted there were 100,000 graves.

The road out of Baghdad will surely be sown with rose pettles. A grateful nation thanks you, W.

[Last Lemming]

9. Yeah, right

my check is in the mail and I won't come in your. . . .never mind

[jojo54]

10. That's possible.

At least, most of the troops anyway. IMHO, Bu*hco has raped the country for all it's worth.

[catmandu57]

11. I know that's what they want to do,

but, I don't think it's going to go off as they see it. I mean nothing has worked right for them except the theft, and even that is turning to shit for them. They got what they wanted, but, the law of unintended consequences is kicking in, and I've got to give even the blind eyed sheeple of america some credit.
This would be so very transparent, and what's going to happen in the ME when we start drawing down?
They'll lose everything they've worked so hard to steal, and the real resistance will be there for a welcome committee. I believe this is another neocon wetdream, especially if we can expose these evil fucks for the incompetent thieves and buffoons they are.

[Oversea Visitor]

12. Haha

partial withdrawal on pretext then after election rush right back hey.
Want to bet?

[iconoclastic cat]

13. Perhaps they'll pelt us with flowers as we leave?

I honestly don't think the US will pull out. The Brits will, but we will not. What about all those bases we built? What about the contracting and oil interests? I don't buy it. It was only a few weeks ago that they were saying 10-12 years. No way do they do it in 18 months.