It's Like Deja Vu All Over Again. It's Like Deja Vu All Over Again

[Hissyspit]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/23/18542/8624

It's like déjà vu all over again. It's like déjà vu all over again.
by Kagro X
Sat Jun 23, 2007 at 03:14:00 PM PDT

Today:

US may reduce forces in Iraq by spring

By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jun 22, 6:52 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The U.S. may be able to reduce combat forces in Iraq by next spring if Iraq's own security forces continue to grow and improve, a senior American commander said Friday. He denied reports the U.S. is arming Sunni insurgent groups to help in the fight against al-Qaida.

Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, the top day-to-day commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, did not predict any reductions in U.S. forces but said such redeployments may be feasible by spring. There are currently 156,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

A year ago:

U.S. general in Iraq outlines troop cuts
Michael R. Gordon The New York Times

Published: June 25, 2006

WASHINGTON The top American commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects sharp reductions in the United States military presence there by the end of 2007, with the first cuts coming this September, American officials say.

American officials emphasized that any withdrawals would depend on continued progress, including the development of competent Iraqi security forces, a reduction in Sunni Arab hostility toward the new Iraqi government and the assumption that the insurgency will not expand beyond Iraq's six central provinces. Even so, the projected troop withdrawals in 2007 are more significant than many experts had expected.

Your government and your newspaper hate you and think you are stupid.

UPDATE: From Nowhere Man, in the comments...

Two years ago:

U.S. Signals Spring Start for Pullout
General Restates Position, Noting Contingencies, During Rumsfeld Visit to Baghdad

By Ann Scott Tyson and Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, July 28, 2005; Page A18

BAGHDAD, July 27 -- The top U.S. military leader in Iraq said Wednesday there could be substantial withdrawals of some of the 135,000 U.S. troops in the country as early as next spring.

"If the political process continues to go positively, and if the development of the security forces continues to go as it is going, I do believe we'll still be able to take some fairly substantial reductions after these elections in the spring and summer," Casey said before meeting with Jafari.

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[Solly Mack]

1. I actually watched the media briefing with Odierno

and he said could be..reduced by spring...if the Iraqi security forces were able to sustain themselves (stand up, we'll stand down)

then when asked to clarify, he backed away from the statement and said it was a potential

the same old song and dance more or less

he also said they had rounded up 721 detainees, 50 that he called "high value"

they started out rounding up males in a certain age range and then they went to rounding up all males

I turned it off after that. I was disgusted.