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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (38810)11/20/2009 6:13:08 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Expect extra pressures and attacks in the run-up to the Iraqi election in late January / early February.

(This will be the FIRST national election since the invasion where *all three* main political groupings are expected to fully participate: the Shiites, the Kurds, and the Sunni Arabs and Turkomen....)

So naturally extremists who are against Democratic political solutions will try their damnedest to disrupt the elections.

Utterly predictable.

Still... right after the elections American forces begin a rapid draw-down of force levels and a pull-back from the cities to rural bases.

Expected to have American force levels down to around just 50,000 or so by the end of August.

Second leg of our pull-out is to see 'all' combat troops (leaving some trainers still in-country) OUT by year-end of the following year, 2011.

Mission complete.
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