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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"PagCal" |
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11 Jan 2006 04:28:15 AM |
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When will American deaths end in Iraq? |
What is our exit strategy?
Bush's 'go out and get US service personnel killed' strategy doesn't
seem to be working.
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US Military Helicopter Crashes in Iraq
By VOA News
08 January 2006
A U.S. military helicopter believed to be carrying 12 Americans has
crashed in northern Iraq, killing everyone on board.
The U.S. military says the Blackhawk helicopter crashed east of Tal Afar
in a sparsely populated area. It says the crash is under investigation.
Military personnel found the crash site Sunday - about 12 hours after
losing communication with the helicopter.
In separate incidents, the U.S. military says five Marines were killed
in insurgent attacks Sunday and Saturday.
Meanwhile, French and Iraqi officials say a French engineer, Bernard
Planche, kidnapped last month in Baghdad has been freed.
On the political front, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani says leaders of
the country's political parties have agreed in principle to form a
national unity government.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: When will American deaths end in Iraq? |
11 Jan 2006 06:44:24 AM |
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We can expect promises of troop reductions this year as the election
gets closer, and some troop reductions are likely to follow but once
the election is over its really up to how the election has turned out.
If the GOP holds on to power in Congress troops levels are likely to
remain as they are and the current policy of putting their heads in the
sand will continue. A democratic Congress is far more likely to make
demands upon Bush to do more in the waying of planning and to open his
mind to the possibility that everything is not going perfect in Iraq
and real pressure must be applied to Iraqi leaders to take over control
of their own nation.
Assuming the GOP holds on to Congress in 2006 then there will be no
troop removal from Iraq until the end of 2008 at the earliest. Deaths
and injuries have hid a steady state so we can expect over these almost
three years the death toll and injury tool, along with the overall
costs, to double. To make any changes to the policy would be to admit
that the initial policy was wrong and Bush will rather let our troops
sit in Iraq.
After 2008 the next President, of either party, almost certainly will
want out of Iraq. Like El Salvador after Reagan it is hard to see any
American President sharing Bush's obsession with Iraq and that nation
will go the way of Afghanistan, forgotten, forsaken, and f*cked.
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| User: "PagCal" |
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| Title: Re: When will American deaths end in Iraq? |
12 Jan 2006 03:45:15 AM |
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Total costs now are estimated at 2.6 TRILLION dollars for the war, and
counting.
rhooker123@hotmail.com wrote:
We can expect promises of troop reductions this year as the election
gets closer, and some troop reductions are likely to follow but once
the election is over its really up to how the election has turned out.
If the GOP holds on to power in Congress troops levels are likely to
remain as they are and the current policy of putting their heads in the
sand will continue. A democratic Congress is far more likely to make
demands upon Bush to do more in the waying of planning and to open his
mind to the possibility that everything is not going perfect in Iraq
and real pressure must be applied to Iraqi leaders to take over control
of their own nation.
Assuming the GOP holds on to Congress in 2006 then there will be no
troop removal from Iraq until the end of 2008 at the earliest. Deaths
and injuries have hid a steady state so we can expect over these almost
three years the death toll and injury tool, along with the overall
costs, to double. To make any changes to the policy would be to admit
that the initial policy was wrong and Bush will rather let our troops
sit in Iraq.
After 2008 the next President, of either party, almost certainly will
want out of Iraq. Like El Salvador after Reagan it is hard to see any
American President sharing Bush's obsession with Iraq and that nation
will go the way of Afghanistan, forgotten, forsaken, and f*cked.
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