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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (640548)10/8/2004 6:46:50 AM
From: JDN  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Buddy, I dont disagree with that but here is the KEY to what was said:

That part of the world tends not to be perfectly peaceful. . . . It never will be, is my view. And do I think that when we leave, it'll be a perfectly peaceful situation? No, I think it'll be a situation where the Iraqis have developed the ability to manage their situation from a security standpoint. And we will have a mutual agreement that it makes sense now to bring down the coalition forces and leave

That paragraph is exactly what the feeling always has been. We are NOT a force of occupiers. We do not intend to have a puppet government there. I would imagin that we will likely have a small force 20-50k men there for 5-7 years (just as we still have forces in JAPAN, KOREA, EUROPE) but they will not be in an active combat mode and likely will be very low key out of the cities. jdn
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