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Originally Posted by firstdown
If you ask anyone in any type of leadership in the military they will tell you that setting a time table is only telling your enemy what you are doing. When someone comes out and says we have to set a time table they either are looking for votes or have no clue as what goes on durn battle. I also get a kick of the people who complain that we have no exit strategy like if we did we would announce it to the world. That would be a great idea.
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But this operation is not an ordinary military exercise. It's not like broadcasting to the Nazis when you plan to move from the Ardennes Forest to Berlin.
If everything is fantastic, the surge is working, and everything's coming up roses like the pro-war crowd is frantically trying to tell us, then there should be no problem setting a date for withdrawal because the Iraqi government should be able to smoothly assume control, and provide adequate security once we leave.
The neo-cons tell us that the media is painting an inaccurate picture of the war, that they "never tell us the good news" from Iraq. But if things are going so well, why will Iraq collapse into an Apocalyptic nightmare the moment we're gone?