Election Strategery
May 22nd, 2006 at 1:24 pm by Susie
See, now I’m confused. I thought we couldn’t “cut and run.”
LONDON — Tony Blair and George Bush will announce that they are to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq at a summit in Washington as early as this week, RAW STORY has learned.
The process has already been carefully choreographed in an attempt to bolster the popularity of both Bush and Blair who have suffered domestically for their handling of the war.
The scope of the phased withdrawal, which will see the 133,000 US force levels cut to around 100,000 by the end of the year and British numbers almost halved, has already been agreed, one senior defence source said.
The actual announcement will come in response to a statement from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that his government believes coalition forces are no longer needed in a number of provinces.
This is PR, not news. Announcements of “troop reductions to come” are as cheap as a, well, fill in your own analogy. Did RAW STORY cite a list of previous announcements in the same vein, every one of them never fulfilled?
Blair Talks of a ‘New Beginning’ in Iraq…
Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday that the establishment of Iraq’s unity government means there …
I thought the next six months were critical. Why are we abandoning Iraq in a critical time?
Surely the GOP isn’t playing politics with Iraq and our soldiers’ lives.