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To: Neocon who wrote (152821)	11/30/2004 8:37:47 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Neocon; Re: "Except, by that time, the primary security burden will have shifted to the Iraqis, we will be largely disengaged, and will have substantial troop withdrawals, with only a residual force based near Baghdad for as a forward deployment post." The history of Bush's war is that we keep expecting to withdraw troops, and they keep getting their stays extended. This has been going on since before the war. The original plan was to have the US largely out of Iraq by the summer of 2003. Hey, you'd be believable if any other Bush plans with regard to Iraq had worked. By now, we were supposed to have eliminated the rebellion by (a) capturing Saddam, (b) improving the economy, (c) having new elections in 2003 with the newly elected Iraqi PM at the State of the Union speech in January 2004, (d) pumping much larger amounts of oil out of the country, (e) getting the power to run 24 hours per day in Baghdad, etc. -- Carl