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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (81992)	7/3/2007 3:09:35 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

They are there to protect US assets.

To: jlallen who wrote (81992)	7/3/2007 3:12:48 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Yeah? So why are they there, moron?! To spend the summer in beautiful Baghdad? Btw, here are the upcoming Friedman Unit (FU) deadlines : Mary Matalin - Republican strategist "[S]ecurity is an essential precondition for a political solution... But we will be able to know in the next six months, although the sustained effort has to take longer than six months". - January 10, 2007 Deadline : July 10, 2007 General George Casey - US commander in Iraq "I think it's probably going to be late summer before you get to the point where people in Baghdad feel safe in their neighborhoods." - January 19, 2007 Deadline : late August, 2007 Norm Coleman - U.S. Senator "Probably six months to a year, for everything. And I talked to some of my colleagues tonight, the military knows, I think they know, that they have to produce big-time over the next six months." - January 24, 2007 Deadline : July 24, 2007 Condoleeza Rice - U.S. Secretary of State (via Robert Gates, U.S. Secretary of Defense) "Mr. Gates said Tuesday that Ms. Rice had told him that her department needed six months to locate and prepare civil servants and contractors to send abroad [to expand the provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq]." - February 6, 2007 Deadline : August 6, 2007