Pentagon considers staying in Iraq for 'decades'

[dogday]

The Department of Defense is studying the possibility of "maintaining a core group of forces in Iraq, possibly for decades," reports National Public Radio.

"We have published no orders directing the planning for the overall withdrawal of forces," General Peter Pace, who is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate when asked if the Pentagon had any contingency plans in place for Iraq troop withdrawal.

"We do have ongoing replacements of forces," he continued, "and we do change the size of the force over time so that that system is available to either plus-up or draw down, but we have published no orders saying come up with a complete plan for total drawdown."

But, reports NPR, the Defense Department is discussing different scenarios for Iraq.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagon_considers_staying_in_Iraq_for_0521.html

[BlueStater]

1. And with either wussy Democrats in power or corrupt Republican assholes, we will be n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. oh fuck me.

Talk to retired USSR generals (they have plenty to say) about tribal warfare, the daily crap they took on under impossible conditions, and how the politicians at home kept the news control on high. Come to think of it, they had 5-7 surges too, all of which failed in the end.

BUT ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES, in the same bloody region, no less?

No. No, and no. damn it. And damn you Nancy. You sold us out. No, worse, you sold out our troops. On your head will be the next, 100, 200, 1000 deaths as this surge gets expanded to 50,000, to 100,000, or more.

[movonne]

3. Some of the Dems don't want to get out...lots of money in war..meanwhile

our country is going down the drain...it makes me sick to my stomach.

[dogday]

4. They are building a huge Embassy, bigger than the

Vatican and have already established 14 Bases or Camps as they call them ....