If the US pulled out of Iraq in say November

[HEyHEY]

What would happen?

[Parche]

1. pullout

it would be a premature election

[CatholicEdHead]

2. Friday's NBC Nightly News

said the pullout date was Dec 31, 2005. After the Constitution is ratified.

Iran in early 2006? Get the pro-war push going before the midterms?

[leftchick]

3. The US Is Not Planning on EVER Leaving Iraq!!!!

Look at what they are doing....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=742&e=5&u=/thenation/20050118/cm_thenation/132132


Though the media ignored Kerry's statement and failed to do any substantive follow-up research, his comments were well-grounded in reality. On the day of the debate the Christian Science Monitor spotlighted the findings of defense specialist John Pike, whose website, GlobalSecurity.org, located twelve "enduring bases" in Iraq, including satellite photos and names. In March, the Chicago Tribune reported that US engineers were constructing fourteen such long-term encampments--the number Kerry referred to. The New York Times previously placed the number at four.


While the exact figure may change, suspicions of undisclosed US imperial plans--exemplified by permanent military bases--rightfully linger. Before the war, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz suggested moving US troops stationed in Saudi Arabia into Iraq. In October, a survey by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes found that two-thirds of respondents disapproved of a permanent military presence, even though more than half thought the US would build the bases anyway.


Now comes a report in the New York Sun by Eli Lake revealing that the Pentagon (news - web sites) is building a permanent military communications system in Iraq, a necessary foundation for any lasting troop presence. The new network will comprise twelve communications towers throughout Iraq, linking Camp Victory in Baghdad to other existing (and future) bases across the country, eventually connecting with US bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan (news - web sites).


"People need to get realistic and think in terms of our presence being in Iraq for a generation or until democratic stability in the region is reached," Dewey Clarridge, the CIA (news - web sites)'s former chief of Arab operations (and Iran-contra point man), told the Sun.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. "People need to get realistic and think in terms of our presence

being in Iraq for a generation or until democratic stability in the region is reached," Dewey Clarridge, the CIA (news - web sites)'s former chief of Arab operations (and Iran-contra point man), told the Sun<<

How many U.S. military bases are positioned around the globe in democratic countries and haven't they been for DECADES?

[MichiganVote]

4. Nothing is going to happen with or without the US presence

Why do Americans always have the idea that only they can save the world? These are people who do manage to live in their own country and somehow they have survived without us for centuries. Civil war? Sure, it may happen. But is that our problem? If that is "our" problem what about the civil wars in the rest of the world?

The only reason we provide a presence is b/c of oil.

[DrWeird]

6. The insurgents would take over.

Exactly the same thing that would happen if they pulled out now, or ten years from now.

[ynksnewyork2]

7. The final election in Iraq is in

December, so it won't be before that, probably.

[wadestock]

8. November 2008?

That would be about the right time to hand the entire mess to the Democrats.

[njdemocrat106]

9. Time to go to Iran!

Then, Syria! Then, North Korea!

[LynnTheDem]

10. If I won a billion dollars in November, what would happen?

Same liklihood.