The fighting in Baghdad is at the "very beginning!"

[Sparkly]

So much for "last throes" and "turning corners!"

W.House denies debating troop withdrawal

By Tabassum Zakaria and Susan Cornwell 19 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq now, the White House said on Monday, despite increasing pressure from members of his own Republican party for a change in war strategy.

But Senate Democrats planned to hold votes on troop pullouts, hoping to capitalize on Republican defections to build a congressional majority around an exit strategy.

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Snow called the July report a "first snapshot" and described the president's strategy of adding troops this year as still in its early stages because it took time for the "surge" to become fully operational. The report will not discuss any timetable for withdrawal, he said.

"This is not a midpoint of operations in Baghdad, but really the very beginning," Snow said.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman also tried to temper expectations about the report, saying it was only recently that Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq, had the full capability he had sought to conduct operations in Iraq.

"I don't think that anyone would expect all the benchmarks to be met or achieved at the front end of the surge operations," Whitman said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070709/pl_nm/iraq_usa_debate_dc

So what's been going on for the past four years?!?

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1. "So what's been going on for the past four years?!?"

Pillaging of the US money along with thievery of oil from Iraq by Bushco.

[snappyturtle]

2. They are delusional! nt