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Originally Posted by Undertoad

See, sometimes I get it right

Ambassador Zalmay Khalizad and Gen George Casey are rumored to have been calling for an exit strategy from Iraq that may even call for a fixed withdrawal date. Obviously, putting a date on that withdrawal would completely undermine Iraq's growing insurgency. But George Jr has no interest in that solution. Options were posted previously. Either 500,000 troops for one year to end the insurgency, or a complete withdrawal which would undermine the insurgency. Leaving too few troops or taking out another 7000 is only a losing strategy.

However it is not about winning in Iraq. It is all about the popularity of George Jr. Iraq has always been secondary to George Jr who is more concerned with his legacy - ie. his Kennedy like 'Mission to Mars' and a place alongside Reagan.

UT would have you believe 7000 troops out of Iraq is some kind of winning solution. How easy he is deceived by propaganda. Leaving 100,000+ American troops only causes the insurgency (once called Al Qaeda by a lying president for self serving political reasons) causes this insurgency to grow exponentially. Too few troops only makes Iraq less stable; increases a probability of civil war.

Senators Biden and Graham, while in Iraq, suggested a solution that is thought to be what Casey and Khalizad, et al have been advocating. However it requires George Jr to grasp reality (instead of a political agenda), show some intelligence, and have some balls. George Jr has demonstrated none - even hiding about the country making no decisions on 11 September 2001. Instead complementing a totally incompetent Brownie.

The US without any significant military, instead and in only 4 years, trained, deployed on most every continent, and then won multiple campaigns all over the world. It was called World War II. Iraq cannot form and domestically deploy more than one battalion in 3 years? This is the George Jr plan. If Iraqis are going to make it, then *they* must do the work - as Biden and Graham suggest. After three years, if Iraqis cannot run their own country, then it will never happen. America should announce a complete withdrawal by July 2006. This is rumored to be what intelligent Americans (with 'dirt under their fingernails') have been recommending. This would undermine the Iraqi insurgency. This is too complicated for George Jr who will need Iraqi bases for an invasion of Iran.

Rumors say Khalizad and Casey have long been suggesting a strategic objective that provides an exit strategy. George Jr has no exit strategy - still has none. Nor, say some, does he want one. Meanwhlle, UT would have you believe a few thousand troop removal means the mental midget president was right. Instead it only demonstrates how desperately UT wants to believe George Jr propaganda.

What Khalizad and Casey are rumored to be suggesting is not yet what George Jr wants. More Americans calling this president a liar would get the troops what they need – as strategic objective and an exit strategy. George Jr is only interested in his popularity which is why the only two viable options (500,000 troops deployed, or a complete withdrawal) are too complicated for George Jr to comprehend.

Meanwhile, even the National Review called for Rumsfeld's resignation due to incompetence. Insiders have suggested Rumsfeld's replacement: Sen Lieberman (D-CT).

Well, George Jr is so pig headed against change (You're doing a good job Brownie?). Rumsfeld would have to resign. George Jr needs a major senior level shakeup. But it will not happen until Americans demand it by calling the president what even The Economist did - incompetent.

It would be a terrible loss to depose of a man who could do much useful work elsewhere. As poor as he has been as Sec of Defense, George Jr should transfer Rumsfeld - not lose him. The question remains where will Rumsfeld be transferred? Where would Rumsfeld do better?

UT did not get it right. The only reason that Casey and Khalizad are even being heard: superior Americans called George Jr things such as liar, mental midget, incompetent, uninformed, naive, and self serving. Good Americans booed the president loudly a few weeks ago in Philadelphia. George Jr is only announcing insignificant troop reductions because George Jr's is worried about his popularity. Until even UT admits George Jr is a mental midget, then George Jr would not listen to what is rumored to be a Casey and Khalizad exit strategy.

The strategy that would get America out of Iraq, stop making America a terrorist target, and completely undermine the Iraqi insurgency (that is not Al Qaeda) would be an American withdrawal announced and completed by July 2006. It is one of only two viable strategies.

Too many Americans still so hate America as to not boo this president – force this president to select a viable Iraq strategy. You get this president to think when you grab him by his balls - also known as his popularity. That is where Goerge Jr does his thinking. George Jr's Iraqi speeches are only about fixing George Jr's popularity. Grab him by what does his thinking - his popularity - and maybe then he will listen to Casey and Khalizad.