Wuznt we wuz gonna start to withdraw in 2006, I thunk?

[struggle4progress]

It kinda brang to mind that ole proverb: fool me once ... fool me ... fool me twice ... cain't remember is if ya fooled me fifteen times now or were it twenty?

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.

Gen. George W. Casey said that despite continued lethal attacks by insurgents, the security situation in Iraq had improved. He reiterated a position he had taken earlier this year on the possible decrease in the U.S. military presence during a one-day visit by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld for meetings with Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/27/AR2005072700431.html

[frogcycle]

1. it was originally going to be 120 days

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. It's always 6 months away.