Will Bu$h bring the troops home this summer?

[DoYouEverWonder]

We know Bu$h will do anything to get reelected. And we know he desperately needs to do something that is positive and will make him look like a hero.

My guess is that in typical Rovian fashion, this July, Bu$h will bring the troops home. We will draw down our forces and leave the cities, withdraw to our bases and focus on protecting the oil fields and pipelines. The rest of the country will have to fend for themselves.

In America, Iraq will quickly fade from the evening news, to be replaced by big homecoming rallies at bases across the nation. Feel good stories about young families happy to be back together. Sprinkle in a few casualties that are returning to normal life, like the guy that went jogging with Bu$h last week.

Bu$h can attend a selection of these homecomings and give big speeches about how great things are, what a huge success their mission in Iraq turned out to be, and that we're beating the terrorists. Maybe even put on that old flight suit one more time.

Of course, these homecomings of US Troops will provide great pics for the campaign. There will be lot's of emotional young people hugging and kissing, little kid's running to into their parent's arms, all kinds of tug at the heart strings stuff, to stir up his patriotic, rah-rah, fundie base.

Of course, in the long term this won't work either but so what? All W cares about is getting reelected and the only way he even has a hope of winning is to bring the majority of the troops and declare that our successful mission in Iraq is done. We won.

Then after the reselection, all these troops will all get sent back to go after Syria and/or Iran.

[the Kelly Gang]

1. he's never bringing them home..it's a colony

[Catfight]

2. NO- the's staying the course and digging a deeper hole. n/t

[Postman]

3. Alive or dead?

n/t

[kentuck]

4. Some will come home but...

most will be pulled back to basecamps that are more secure and will only be used in emergencies....which could be often...

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. The reality won't match the illusion

I know that Bu$h has no intentions of really bringing the troops home.


What I have in mind, is more of a temporary drawdown. Even if they keep 40,000 or so, troops in Iraq they can still bring home 100,000 and make it look like V-Day.

Then after the reselection, these poor suckers will get shipped back and Bu$h can reinstate the draft to fill in the gaps.

[cornfedyank]

5. especially if the iraqis ask us to leave by midsummer

i think that the shrub crowd would break into the campaign war chest, say ya it was tough but mission accomplished. well maybe not that phrase. they already used it. something to that effect.
remember, they do not have to convince us all. their goal is reelection with a filibuster proof majority. then they can pack the courts and make the high end tax cuts permanent. plus buy a whole lot more guns from cronies.
wage peace--------it's cheaper.

[0007]

7. You can have me for immoral purposes if you believe junior will

bring the troops home this summer.

[lolly]

8. Not what poster said, exactly

DoYOuWonder described a faux homecoming--like the faux carrier landing--that would provide lots of heartwarming footage. A few thousand would come home with great fanfare and the media would eat it up.

June 30th--wonder if they'll get some of them home in time for 4th of July "Victory" parades. I can see it, definitely.

The media won't report that 1000s of troops were still left in Iraq, or that 1000s more would have to be redeployed. That would be kept under wraps until AFTER the election.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. And what do I have to do

if I'm wrong?

[0007]

10. What ever you like, LOL!!