Numbers Game
The White House may propose troop cuts. If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
So once again the Bushies are dangling the prospect of “troop cuts” in order to buy a few more Friedman Units until Bush can pass the whole Mess-in-potamia off on his successor. Of course these “cuts”, should they actually occur, would really just be bringing troop levels back down to where they were before the start of the surge. And the timeline being floated is pretty predictable, coming during the height of what looks to be one of the most important election cycles in recent years. But I’m sure the Bushies would never be so cynical as to use the US government for partisan political purposes.
(X-posted at The Xsociate Files)
I think you are wrong.
If Bush can manipulate some semblance of the Iraqui government into passing the “oil sharing agreement” (That’s “Oil giveaway to U.S. companies” to those of us in the reality-based community), he is very abruptly going to lose interest in Iraq, and indeed pull out a bunch of troops in an effort to prevent a Republican cataclysm in 2008.
That’s what I expect, anyway.