Steve, do you read the articles your post or do you just scan the headlines?
What does these articles actually say?
This is a call to shift from a combat role to an embedded advisory role leaving 20,000 troops in Iraq.
"The call to pull out combat brigades by early 2008 would be more a conditional goal than a firm timetable, predicated on the assumption that circumstances on the ground would permit it..."
This is no different than what Bush has been saying for 3.5 years. The Bush Administration has been trying to pull out since I can remember but only if "circumstances on the ground" permit.
Both the ISG and Bush have set "conditional goals". That is the operational phrase here.
Conditional goals = as conditions on the ground permit
So, what has the ISG (created by the GOP Congress) accomplished? More of the same? No new direction? Seems that way to me.
From all reports the ISG isn't going to recommend anything new or decisive.
I will reserve judgement until the entire report is available sometime around the 6th of December.
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Steve, do you read the articles your post or do you just scan the headlines?
What does these articles actually say?
This is a call to shift from a combat role to an embedded advisory role leaving 20,000 troops in Iraq.
"The call to pull out combat brigades by early 2008 would be more a conditional goal than a firm timetable, predicated on the assumption that circumstances on the ground would permit it..."
This is no different than what Bush has been saying for 3.5 years. The Bush Administration has been trying to pull out since I can remember but only if "circumstances on the ground" permit.
Both the ISG and Bush have set "conditional goals". That is the operational phrase here.
Conditional goals = as conditions on the ground permit
So, what has the ISG (created by the GOP Congress) accomplished? More of the same? No new direction? Seems that way to me.
From all reports the ISG isn't going to recommend anything new or decisive.
I will reserve judgement until the entire report is available sometime around the 6th of December.
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