"I believe that we will be able to reduce our forces to the

[Joe for Clark]

to the pre surge levels by next summer"

He actually did say that -it wasn't just my hearing.

That is the headline - Surge for another YEAR - and assume his thinking is based on some reality - and there is no track record to assume that.

There is no question about what we have to do - Totally unacceptable by 2/3rds of the country.

Joe

[OHdem10]

1. He simply laid out the GOP Plan to continue the

Occupation of Iraq for years to come.

The MSM are enabling the continuence of the occupation
by not focusing on the important elements but being
so shocked over the MoveOn AD.

Do not let GOP false shock distract you, Democrats.

The Die is cast. Long Long Term Occupation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Well it is eternal war for eternal profit

the problem with this is that it only works short term... yes five years it on the outer edge of short term

In the medum to long term... no it does not... and we will see this (actually already seeing it) in the basic economic problems in the country

What these boys are setting the country for is best case just economic probledms so serious we need to pull out

Or

Economic collapse and the separation of the country into successor states

but that can't happen

Yes, yes it can... and the USSR is the latest example of that one

Afthanistan, Iran. same shit, different decade

[panader0]

2. How about let's reduce our troops to the pre-invasion level.

[Raven]

4. No decent military leader with the welfare of his forces and his country at heart

would lobby so hard to continue in the middle of another country's civil war unless he was taking his marching arders from the Commander in Chief. This guy has basically talked out everybody's time and said absolutely nothing...he's Bush's GI Joe wind up doll. So sad.

[Joe for Clark]

6. Cut to the chase and ignore the puffing -

He did have pretty charts - I give him that. And he is, in the end, trying to rationalize his job there.

At the point he said - surge for another year and trust him - hearing should have stopped right there. Cause everything after that was pure BS.

Joe

[Imagevision]

5. Surge for another YEAR? - whatever the new world order dictates...

Oil, defense contracts, last week Cheney was pissed off because the Pentagon hadn't completed an attack plan against Iran. Bush will bomb Iran a few days before 08 election then laugh on their way out...