Reply #56: Did not and do not support Illegal occupation. [View All]

[Blue State Bandit]

The manner and method of troop withdrawal has already been clearly spelled out and of course it would take months. But perhaps you haven't researched this and don't know any better.

This is called Phased Redeployment.

"Over the horizon reaction forces" need not necessarily be in Iraq, but in Kuwait or Turkey.

But perhaps you haven't researched this and don't know any better.

As a matter of fact I could say the same thing about you.

These guys are essentially jockeying for some kind of power, some kind of a carve up at the political table. It's very (INAUDIBLE). But then the military action is really just an extension of the politics.

They believe that by putting military pressure on, that gives them a stake that they didn't otherwise have in the military game. Unlike the al Qaeda extremists, unlike the Islamic militants, they are not fighting a global holy war. They are not fighting to create an Islamic state, like these Sunnis on one side and the extremist Shia on the other.

They want largely a secular society. They've said they're prepared to host U.S. bases, akin to Germany and Japan. Let's normalize relations. We share common enemies, Iran and al Qaeda. How did we end up on the wrong side of this?

Micheal Ware interviews Iraqi Sunni Insurgents
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/04/sitroom.02.html

Also read:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1179362,00.html

It seems that, at the time, there was credible support, from the Iraqi Insurgents for US military bases In Iraq, provided they were outside of populated areas. And this would have been possible thru the congress, and would have passed constitutional muster.

I must repeat, AT THE TIME.

As I have been trying to tell you from the beginning, time changes options and perspectives.

This is the nature of war, and it seems that you have no clue what impact the illegal occupation of Iraq has had on the geo-political map.

You might want to go back and do you homework, their will be a test tomorrow.