CBS "News" tonight (Lara Logan) reported that troops would be coming out of Iraq in 2011.

[AlinPA]

Tonight, plans to have them in and out of Afghanistan by 2011 will be announced. Pretty fast turnaround in Afghanistan, but Iraq is slower? Could be the logistics in Iraq involve more hardware.

[Clio the Leo]

1. BEGINNING to come out in July of '11

.... seems to be the official world.

(and yes Vabs I know, we have to wait for the speech! lol)

[vaberella]

2. You know me too well! n/t

[Peacetrain]

4. I am waiting for the speech... I want to hear those words..

:)

[Liberation Angel]

3. umm which is it? Iraq or afghanistan or both???

That OP didn't quite add up for me

[AlinPA]

8. It doesn't add up for me either. I'm curious about the fast turnaround for Afghanistan. nt

[vaberella]

11. Both. Check post # 9. n/t

[vaberella]

9. Both.

Back in April or so we were told that we'll be out of Iraq by 2011. And we start removing troops from Afghanistan in Jul 2011.

[vaberella]

5. I realize the problem. It's language. We're out of Iraq August 2011.

But we're starting removal of soldiers by July 2011 in Afghanistan.

[FrenchieCat]

6. They always had more troops and equipment in Iraq, remember?

Afghanistan was the open ended war on terror that was neglected and forgotten.
So afghanistan may be more dangerous, but less hardware to move out.

[AlinPA]

10. That was my guess.

[Arctic Dave]

7. CNN article used that elusive word "most" troops to begin to leave in 2011.

[bluestateguy]

12. The SOFA says everybody out by Dec. 31, 2011

How we get to that point still leaves some flexibility for the US.

[Lasher]

13. The promise du jour is that Iraq troop levels will be reduced to 50K by August 31, 2010

Apparently we're looking at a another new, and of course later, date for meaningful troop reduction in Iraq. Can't help it. Conditions on the ground, don'tcha know? Besides they said maybe. Keeping promises, that's for sissies. This is necessary, so we can achieve glorious Victory.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=7108441#7108898

[NJGeek]

14. lara logan

yeahhhh