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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
GaTTI- timetable to pull out or more troops go in? I know you think Bush is fucking up, but which way?
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Dunno. The point of my post was that Rummy hasn't
lied of course, he simply listened to the one(s) on payroll who said "yep, we're fine sir!," ignored the others, and chose to say that we'ved given our commanders everything they asked for. Simple, no?
Murtha's actual plan sounded like an interesting one, in which a number of troops are moved to the periphery (so they're not a daily reminder and target) but not completely out of the theatre (so that they can move where needed and stomp out Terrorist Fuckheads where and when needed), and that there's a gradual drawdown over the next year or two. That BushCo decided to turn on a dime from SwiftBoating him to throwing rose petals at Murtha's feet suggest that they might actually be thinking in these terms too.
FWIW, your picture doesn't really paint a thousand words analyzing Murtha's strategy, instead boiling it down to a couple of dozen. Penske would be proud. If he were reading this, of course.
