Thursday, August 04, 2005

So what's the mission to accomplish now?

Bush on Wednesday insisted he would not lay down a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops.

"I hear all the time, 'Well, when are bringing the troops home?' And my answer to you: 'As soon as possible but not before the mission is complete,'" Bush said....

"We are never going to win this thing militarily, that is the bottom line," said Lieutenant General John Sattler of the First Marine Expeditionary Force, in a candid conversation in Washington last week.
See this interview with Arun Gupta also. Gupta suggests that one way, perhaps the only way, out of Iraq is to leave Iraq to civil war, thus making the ongoing disaster a putative domestic conflict (and the US wouldn't get involved in domestic disputes, would it?).

Bush's Exit Plan: Fomenting Civil War in Iraq?

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