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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-24-07 12:14 PM
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3. Last month Malaki said "US troops can leave whenever they want'
Edited on Fri Aug-24-07 12:24 PM by EVDebs
That sealed his fate, a la Diem in Nov 1963, and JFK later in the month. Expect Malaki to disappear from the scene and corrupt puppets like Chalabi for example to pop up in his place. Bush is correct re the Vietnam analogy. The US public is fed up with Iraqi boys not standing up to do what, as JFK said, defend THEIR country,

"Why did I suspect that this document might be very important? First, there is the date: Robert McNamara has written that President Kennedy, at a National Security Council meeting on October 2, 1963, the day after this conversation apparently occurred, decided to pull U.S. forces out of Vietnam by the end of 1965 and to start the process by withdrawing a thousand troops before the end of 1963. (Several leading Kennedy administration officials have endorsed McNamara’s interpretation, but it remains a very contentious question, disputed, for example, by Dean Rusk, JFK’s Secretary of State. Historians are divided as well.)"

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1999/5/1999_5_67.shtml

Bush's duplicity is evident in the contradiction of his intended withdrawal (As Iraqis stand up...) and the permanent bases

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2965393&mesg_id=2965419

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