Monday, 29 September 2008
Done With Iraq By June
I am calling it right now. If Obama is elected, by the end of June, 2009, combat troops will have left Iraq. Not because we will have won the war, not because Obama wants to ditch the country, but because of budgetary constraints. Eventually, we're going to bail out these banks, and that isn't cheap. The next president will need to cut the budget somehow, and Iraq would be the most popular way to do it.
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I disagree. Obama's own website states that his plan is to have most of the troops withdrawn in 16 months, not in 6 months. And, even then, it says, a residual force of undetermined number will be left in Iraq and the surrounding regions. That's Obama's stated plan. It is Ralph Nader's plan that states that all troops will be withdrawn from Iraq within six months. I would like to offer my own prediction for when we shall be out of Iraq if Obama is elected President: Iraq shall become another Vietnam, or Germany, with a residual force of soldiers remaining there decades into the future. Not that McCain would be any better. I believe that our main difference here is clear-cut: you are an optimist, and I am a pessimist. But, as I like to say---if you are a pessimist, then you are never disappointed.
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