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Deployable Troops To Run Out At Just The Right Moment
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
I have not been to Iraq. I am not a military expert. I have never served in the military. However, I can spot a coincidence when I see one. See if you can spot one too in this excerpt from a New York Times article.
U.S. General in Iraq Speaks Strongly Against Troop Pullout
BAGHDAD, July 15 -- An American general directing a major part of the offensive aimed at securing Baghdad said Sunday that it would take until next spring for the operation to succeed, and that an early American withdrawal would clear the way for "the enemy to come back" to areas now being cleared of insurgents.Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commanding 15,000 American and about 7,000 Iraqi troops on Baghdad's southern approaches, spoke more forcefully than any American commander to date in urging that the so-called troop surge ordered by President Bush continue into the spring of 2008. That would match the deadline of March 31 set by the Pentagon, which has said that limits on American troops available for deployment will force an end to the increase by then.
"It's going to take us through the summer and fall to deny the enemy his sanctuaries" south of Baghdad, General Lynch said at a news briefing in the capital. "And then it's going to take us through the first of the year and into the spring" to consolidate the gains now being made by the American offensive and to move enough Iraqi forces into the cleared areas to ensure that they remain so, he said.
The new American motto: We will fight until we run out of troops available for deployment. This will strike terror in the hearts of terrorists.
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