Those people who could think past the first political impulse to the second obvious thought may now congratulate themselves. Those who said "If we announce a date certain for withdrawl, the enemy will wait and just increase their attacks after we leave" may feel free to say I told you so.
It is a sign of the incompetence/malignance (pick your preference) of our current President that he stuck to a timetable for withdrawing combat forces from Iraq. Our fighters are announced to have left, and BOOM there goes the neighborhood, as predicted by those with an ounce of military sense.
P.S. we are announcing withdrawl timetables for Afghanistan. Does anyone care to place any bets as to what happens to the peace-loving Afghans who worked with the coalition forces during our occupation?
Iraq AND Afghanistan have the potential to be Obama's Vietnam . . . but rest assured he will blame Bush for it.
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If your son or brother died over there, and the end state is worse tyranny than the people had under Saddam, at the hands of Al Quaeda, did he die in vain? Were your hundreds of billions of dollars spent in vain?
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