Iraq Fallback Plans For US Military?

    The L.A. Times  has reported today that the United states military planners are working on a backup plan in case the currant troop buildup in Iraq doesn't work as planned. This new plan would include a gradual pullout of the forces and would then place more priority on better training the Iraqi forces.

It is a fallback if the Bush administration's plan to send about 26,000 more U.S. troops fails to stabilize Iraq, or if the Democratic-led Congress limits that move, it said.

The newspaper quoted a Pentagon official as saying "This part of the world has an allergy against foreign presence. You have a window of opportunity that is relatively short. Your ability to influence this with a large U.S. force eventually gets to a point that is self-defeating."

   I think that that part of the world has more of an illness to our presence instead of just an allergy. Actually, it would be more of an illness to the policies of the United States particularly under this administration which seems to hate everyone.

   I'll tell you something. The only way that any of this will come into being is if our spineless Congress grows some nuts and takes action to stop this mess instead of bickering over sit that shouldn't even be an issue in the first place.

 

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