Here's a clear plan to have American troops leave Iraq AND make Iraq happy

[zulchzulu]

It's simple.

Well, not that simple. First, we need to get rid of PNAC-influenced Bush and friends. They need to be brought to justice for war crimes and impeachment. They are a cancer on democracy and we need to zap them out of our American bloodstream immediately. We can't let the cancer kill America. And we won't.

After that's done...

We need to have a monthly 10% withdrawal from Iraq with the troops and mostly the "contractors" that are in higher numbers. This would last about two years or less.

While that's happening, we need to involve the UN, the Arab League and groups like Amnesty Internationl, Doctors Without Borders and other humanitarian groups to be allowed to go back in with troops from a larger international presence. This would take monumental leadership from America.

With this reversal of attacking the "insurgency", i.e. Iraqis fighting for their country, America would also work on a new 21st Century Marshall Plan to help revitalize Iraq through funding and assisting the restructure of Iraq's basic infrastructure.

Instead of the present costs of the American taxpayer paying to line the pockets of KBR, PNAC, Halliburton and the legions of war profiteers to fuel the war, paying about half of the expense would go toward the new Marshall Plan-style revitalization.

Since Israeli leadership within Sharon's Likkudist government would be jealous or use AIPAC lobbyists to cut such a plan off at the knees, some offering of having some of the Iraqi water supply be available as an exchange to have them give Palestinians more soverienty would be offered. Well, not offered...forcefully suggested.

The main steps....leave Iraq incrementally and on a two-year plan, revamp and revitalize relationships with our allies, deploy a new Marshall Plan of infrastructure reform with links to the Arab League and the UN and finally, making sure Israel and the Palestinians get a new truce with some of Iraqi water resources to be used for 10 years until Israel develops a more survivable water treatment technology.

Let's let Iraq be Iraq again. Granted, there may be a civil war there to finally draw their own non-British lines in the sand and boundaries, but that's not for us to control and police.

We have to get out of the basement when it comes to education ratings internationally. Let's spend these war dollars on our own.

I know...it will never happen.

[OneBlueSky]

1. um . . . it's about your first step . . .

"First, we need to get rid of PNAC-influenced Bush and friends."

the Republicans control EVERYTHING . . . and high-priced lawyers can drag ANYTHING out for years . . . the chances of getting rid of BushCo are slim and none without a HUGE uprising of the American people . . . who are too busy watching American Idol, gassing up their SUVs, and tapping into their ever-increasing (and illusory) home equity to stock said homes with the latest "must have" doodads and gizmos . . .