Gen. Petraeus Wants to Suspend Troop Withdraws in July
The U.S. general in charge of the Iraq War told the senate he would continue a troop withdraw until July then pause for 45 days to consider whether to continue bringing troops home.
Before a Senate hearing today Gen. David Petraeus recommended a "period of consolidation and evaluation" once the troops President Bush ordered to Iraq last year have completed their pullout in July. He did not commit to a timetable for troop withdraws after the 45 day pause. Nor did he commit to any further withdraws beyond July.
Both Gen. Petraeus and Iraqi ambassador Ryan Crocker described an Iraq that is becoming more secure but say that progress is fragile.
Let's take a gander at a couple of reactions from bloggers on both sides of the political spectrum.
Joel Johannesen of Proud to be Canadian:
The Democrats in the Senate Armed Services Committee are using this latest opportunity provided by the presence of General Petraeus with his official update report, to display something one wouldn’t necessarily expect: their utter contempt for General Petraeus and the war he—and ostensibly his country—is engaged in to win, in Iraq.The liberals refuse to accept a general set of standards: the surge has proven to bear much success, and this thing has a shot at succeeding in the end, whenever that is.
James Joiner of An Average American Patriot:
If you realize the real role of the surge or of attacking iraq and staying the course it is all success as is the allowed degradation of our America. Observing China's persecution of Tibetan's and being ignored by Bush it increasingly is looking like a case of you ignore my indiscretions and I'll ignore yours as the ignored world unrest will climax in a total world breakdown! Anyway you look at it once again I am going to update and reiterate the total failure Bush guaranteed the day he ignored all advice to the contrary and attacked Iraq so he could set us up to go after Iran and implement what he thinks will be his and Israel's idea of a new middle east order.Link to C-Span video of the hearing [Real Media]
-Dippold
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2 Comments:
The blatant lies were too much to keep listening too. Stay the course until war with Iran can be achieved is the original goal established pre idiot. Ever hear of
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The economy and the so called insurgents in Iraq if the truth known would be doing what the Democrats couldn't. They should be nullifying McCain and bringing down Bush even though he is lying and fails to see the truth and the writing on the wall! I see just those two events bringing an end to the nightmare of Bush unless he pulls some underhanded tactic to keep his nightmare on track! With everything in Bush's House of Cards failing as expected, and after the Pentagon telling him the military could do nothing more as well as the "successful" collapse of Iraq as the insurgents battle each other,blow up Iraq's infrastructure, and fight down the Iraq Government and America, the lies which are the new truth continue to carry the day! have to wonder what act of desperation will the idiot pull next to stay in power and keep this nightmare moving forward? I did a search of my past posts on the subject of whey Iraq was attacked, the middle east, failure, middle east breakdown, world war 3, and there were so many as This breakdown was obvious 5 years ago and I have failed to get anyone of consequence to see it and to head this off! So...
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