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Originally Posted by djtestudo
Sounds to me like the plan is to start bringing troops home if things continue to move forward in Iraq.
In other words, basically what the plan should have been, and likely was, all along.
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Not really true. The past rhetoric was: we stay as long as needed. Which was interpreted as: we stay as long as we like - by the Arab world. This obviously caused much agitation and reinforced the false idea that we are occupying Iraq.
I hope that reframing the mission statement would encurage Iraqi's and their allies to support the comming election and the stabilization of Iraq. Of course, in my opinion, it's far too late, Iraq has gone to the dogs and nothing short of deploying three times as many troops as we have now will save it.