Korea may be Bush's model for Iraq, officials say

[Dulcinea]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush is looking at the decades-long U.S. troop presence in South Korea as a model for a future U.S. role in Iraq, senior administration officials said Thursday.

More than 38,000 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea and along the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea more than 50 years after the end of the war on the Korean Peninsula.

The president will compare Iraq to the U.S. deployment on the Korean peninsula in a speech to the nation Thursday night at 9:01 p.m. ET.

During the speech, Bush is also expected to endorse the recommendation of the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, that the U.S. military can begin pulling 30,000 combat troops from Iraq.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/13/bush.speech/index.html

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As long as there's money to be made in Iraq, we'll never leave. Ever.

[htuttle]

1. Funny thing about the Korean peninsula though...

THERE'S A BORDER, AND ALL THE BAD GUYS ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT!

It's a bit different when the bullets are coming from all sides, I'd think.

[grytpype]

8. And a cease fire that has held for 50 years!

If we could get a cease fire in Iraq, that would be a big damn deal. Only we can't.

[LiberalFighter]

16. He should go over to Iraq and mark the line and determine which side each person goes

[rodeodance]

2. umm. speachwriters must have gotten the message that the VN analogy did nor work?

[Mythsaje]

3. Well, there is also the problem that the Iraqi

version of Rev. Moon is ON THE OTHER FUCKING SIDE.

But other than that...

[TwilightGardener]

4. Are we really in S. Korea to guard the DMZ? Come on--we're there

for China.

[Eugene]

5. Translation: At best, our troops will be there to keep the lid on a partitioned Iraq indefinitely.

And that's if and only if they can stabilize the situation.

[Jane Austin]

6. How utterly stupid.

In Korea, we were holding back an invasion from outside.

Who's the enemy in Iraq?

[madrchsod]

7. i would say bush is going to piss off the korea war vets now

but even those guys are just about all dead. well there are enough to remember that that war still has`t ended. tens of thousands of americans died in some of the worse battles in american history during that "police action"....god help us all

[Justitia]

9. All the broadcast newsers are saying this is a huge shock. Welcome to your Dem Pres '08. -eom

[Ian David]

10. We're gonna wait for the Chinese to invade before we declare McArthur was right after all? n/t

[Pirate Smile]

11. My God, what an idiot. He thinks this will help his case? LOL

[shaniqua6392]

12. Osama is going to love George's speech tonight.

Buckle your seatbelts America. He is going to get us hit again with this one. Maybe we should take all of our money out of the bank and stock up on food and water.

[Adsos Letter]

13. ...and that 30,000 "drawdown" just puts us back where we were

before the surge. I think my HIST 510 professor stated it pretty correctly in seminar yesterday: our ruling clown has simply given up on Iraq; hang on and dump in the lap of the next guy (or gal).

He also has absolutely no sense of history...

[onehandle]

14. Where the Hell do you draw the 38th parallel in Iraq?

Big difference you stupid impotent chimp.

[INDIA]

15. Chimpotent? n/t

[LiberalFighter]

17. Try the Green Zone

[Doctor_J]

18. Bsuh has a model?

Next time he faces the press corpse one of them should ask him to compare and contrast Korea and Iraq. He couldn't find either on a map, nor tell you who is the leader of each.