Rumsfeld can't name end date for U-S occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

[sabra]

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http://www.katc.com/global/story.asp?s=3608338&ClientType=Printable

Rumsfeld can't name end date for U-S occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

PENTAGON Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says progress in Iraq has been "a few steps forward, and a step back."

Rumsfeld says nation-building "is not easy stuff" -- especially since Iraqis have had such little experience with representative government. Still, he says most Iraqis are "confident in the legitimacy of what's taking place, and in the future."

Rumsfeld says there will be an end date for the U-S occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan -- but he can't say when. He says coalition members have no "appetite to occupy another country." He says they seek nothing other than to assist Iraq and Afghanistan on the path to democracy.

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[indepat]

1. Any Rummyites neither want nor will take a drop of Iraqi oil

[daleo]

2. But it was supposed to be a cakewalk

It would last months, certainly not years. Now it looks like decades. Rummy's new motto: "Decades, certainly not centuries".

[SpiralHawk]

3. "We have always been at war with Iraqistan" - BushCo & War Profiteers

Big BushCo loves you.

[BiggJawn]

4. First it was months, with thrown roses and open arms and legs...

Then it's "12 years" and no mention of grateful young Iraqi women wanting a GI Joe husband.

Now........"He can't say when...."
Maybe he's thinking "When the last Iraqi Insurgent (freedom fighter) is DEAD."

[Bo]

5. Not surprising...He also lost vietnam as well

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. They will occupy Iraq, insurgency or no insurgency.

Nobody is leaving. There are oil fields to secure.

[VegasWolf]

7. and Bush told Jerry falwell that God had assured Bush that there

would be few casualties. Somebody made an error.

[XNGH]

8. Pull out date

My guess is that we will pull out of the Middle Eat just as soon as every drop of oil has been drained ... just my guess