Reply #7: Minister Sees Need for U.S. Help in Iraq Unitil 2018 [View All]

[Stuart G]

Source: New York Times........

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/world/middleeast/15military.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Minister Sees Need for U.S. Help in Iraq Until 2018


By THOM SHANKER
Published: January 15, 2008
FORT MONROE, Va. — The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq’s borders from external threat until at least 2018.
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Those comments from the minister, Abdul Qadir, were among the most specific public projections of a timeline for the American commitment in Iraq by officials in either Washington or Baghdad. And they suggested a longer commitment than either government had previously indicated.
Pentagon officials expressed no surprise at Mr. Qadir’s projections, which were even less optimistic than those he made last year.
President Bush has never given a date for a military withdrawal from Iraq but has repeatedly said that American forces would stand down as Iraqi forces stand up. Given Mr. Qadir’s assessment of Iraq’s military capabilities on Monday, such a withdrawal appeared to be quite distant, and further away than any American officials have previously stated in public.
Mr. Qadir’s comments are likely to become a factor in political debate over the war. All of the Democratic presidential candidates have promised a swift American withdrawal, while the leading Republican candidates have generally supported President Bush’s plan. Now that rough dates have been attached to his formula, they will certainly come under scrutiny from both sides.

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Well..........here it is ........the real truth.............who are the chumps now???????????
..If the minister of a country needs the U.S. help for the next ten years, what is the next President going to do?
..How will we untangle the web that the head chimp has woven?