It's like watching a tape of Viet Nam run backwards.

[trof]

"The Iraq Study Group, which wrapped up eight months of deliberations yesterday, has reached a consensus and will call for a major withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, shifting the US role from combat to support and advising, according to a source familiar with the deliberations."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/113006Z.shtml

We started out in Viet Nam with military 'assistance and advisors'.
MACV
Military Assistance Command-Viet Nam

So we'll just run that playbook in reverse and see how that works out.
The old 'reverse'.
Boy, I bet that'll catch 'em off guard.
TOUCHDOWN!
:eyes:

[DBoon]

1. so is the next step to hand Iraq over to the French?

;)

[trof]

4. Hey, I guess so. Hadn't gotten that far.

But I don't think they want it this time.

[underpants]

2. Kerry would just now be leaving after his tours right?

I think that is how the timetable would work.

[sandnsea]

3. They've been saying they'd withdraw troops

since the war began. First it was the way home is through Baghdad. Our troops never expected to be 'stationed' in Iraq, not even if it was peaceful. Then, they said they would withdraw troops 'after the elections'. They said it in 2004 and 2004. They never did. Without any real benchmarks or a timetable, this is just more bullshit. There's no reason for the Iraqis to believe them, which is what it would take for any of the warring factions to even begin to deal with the differences in Iraq. There certainly isn't any reason for Americans to believe them. I sure don't.