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Monday, June 12, 2006

 

We are never leaving Iraq

Congressman Castle, do you support President Bush's plan to keep us in Iraq for decades?

Someone should ask Mr. Castle about this New York Times report that the Bush administration is making plans to keep tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq indefinitely:

Mr. Bush on Friday made clear that the American commitment to the country will be long-term. Officials say the administration has begun to look at the costs of maintaining a force of roughly 50,000 troops there for years to come, roughly the size of the American presence maintained in the Philippines and Korea for decades after those conflicts.

...and this. On Meet the Press, Retired Gen. Barry McCaffery said it was likely that the U.S. will keep at least 50,000 in Iraq for the next 10 years:

GEN. McCAFFREY: Well, if it’s a government that works, we can probably sustain the U.S. troops, 50,000, 60,000, 70,000 troops there for 10 years and hope that Iraq turns into a responsible governmental entity that doesn’t attack its neighbors, doesn’t build WMD. I still think that’s a likely outcome if the political system can come together on the ground.

If we had a free press maybe someone would ask Castle about why Congress stripped a provision from the supplemental spending bill that would have ruled out permanent U.S. bases in Iraq.

- via Think Progress

Comments:
Give it time. We still haven't left Germany yet.
 
Not that red herring again.
 
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