"The United States would hope to leave behind a number of brigades that would be redesigned and reconfigured.... These brigades would be considered noncombat outfits"
What a DISAPPOINTMENT this cat turned out to be!!!!!
"President considers a 23-month Iraq withdrawal option" by Robert Burns, Associated Press | February 7, 2009
WASHINGTON - The White House is considering at least two troop withdrawal options as it weighs a new Iraq strategy - one that would preserve President Obama's campaign pledge to get all combat brigades out within 16 months and a second that would stretch it to 23 months, two officials said yesterday.
A third, in-between option of 19 months is also being weighed, according to the officials, neither of whom would discuss the sensitive topic without being granted anonymity. One of the officials said the main focus appears to be on the 16-month and 23-month options; 23 months would run to the end of 2010.
Under either timeline, the United States would hope to leave behind a number of brigades that would be redesigned and reconfigured as multipurpose units to provide training and advising for Iraqi security forces, one official said. These brigades would be considered noncombat outfits....
We aren't ever leaving, people; they have been holding that in front of your nose for five fucking years!!!!
The concept of the stay-behind training and advising brigades has been well developed, the official said, although the details such as their size and composition are in an early stage of being sorted out....
Obama must weigh a number of risks in deciding how fast to pull out the 14 combat brigades that are now in Iraq, including the political risk associated with abandoning his campaign pledge to get out within 16 months.
Like what we have ever wanted or cared about has mattered to the globalist pricks!!
The calculation is complex and tied to other concerns: relieving stress on war-weary troops and their families; tradeoffs in escalating the war in Afghanistan, and being ready for crises elsewhere.
What, you guys have SOMETHING (Iran) IN MIND?
Did you just feel a DRAFT, readers?
The pace and sequencing of a troop pullout will have implications for preserving recent gains in reducing violence in Iraq. An erosion of security could in turn halt progress toward political reconciliation, raising the prospect of sectarian warfare and a new crisis for Obama.
Pffft!
I'm so sick of the repetitive bullshit from the lying Zionist MSM.
They LIED ABOUT IRAQ right from the start and NEVER STOPPED!!!
Just as they LIE about EVERYTHING!
Also at issue is how to ensure proper protection for civilians, such as State Department members of military-civilian teams supporting Iraqi economic and political rebuilding, as the US military presence shrinks. That civilian work, including the role of international nongovernmental groups, will arguably grow in importance as the Iraqis focus less on fighting insurgents and more on building national unity.
Related: Occupation Iraq: AmeriKan Arrogance
That was the feeling I got just reading the last two paragraphs.
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BAGHDAD - Iraqi leaders in Kirkuk province have charged that twice in the last two weeks the US military violated the hard-won security agreement signed in November by attacking Iraqi criminal suspects without coordinating with Iraqi security forces.
They actually expected us to follow that thing?
The first episode occurred in January, when US soldiers fatally shot an Iraqi couple in their home near Kirkuk after the wife reached for a pistol hidden under a mattress, US and Iraqi officials said.
There is some dispute about that!
See: Story Iraq: Sniper Shooting Gallery
You think I'm going to believe the lying, mass-murdering military?
The couple's 8-year-old daughter was wounded. The shooting was reported at the time, but the charges of failure to coordinate emerged yesterday, hours after a US raid in which a 58-year-old man was shot and killed outside of Kirkuk....
Interviews with witnesses to yesterday's raid, including the 58-year-old man's son, Nihad Mohammed Hassan al-Bachary, 16, described a sudden and brutal invasion of the family home.
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And that is where the MSM left it!
Next!
"Girl killed by US gunfire, Iraqis say
BAGHDAD - An 8-year-old Iraqi girl was killed and several others were wounded when gunfire from a US military convoy struck a crowd of Sh'iite pilgrims traveling to the holy city of Karbala, witnesses and Iraqi officials said.
The US military confirmed that there had been an accidental discharge of a weapon and that it had reports of two people wounded in Diwaniya, the area in central Iraq where the shooting took place Saturday. It said it was starting an investigation.
In northern Baghdad yesterday, a roadside bomb killed two people and wounded 11 others as they began their pilgrimage to Karbala, Iraqi officials said.
See Occupation Iraq: Israel's IEDs and related links, readers, for WHO is RESPONSIBLE for the violence -- and keep that in mind as you read the Zionist War Daily's accounts!!
A security agreement between the United States and Iraq set new rules that greatly limit US military actions. When American forces are operating outside their bases, the agreement requires them to consult with Iraq.
Iraqi officials have said that the Americans violated the agreement twice in recent weeks by attacking Iraqi criminal suspects without consulting Iraqi forces.
The Saturday shooting occurred while the Americans were on an official mission guarding a supply convoy but were not pursuing any Iraqi suspects. The convoy had stopped to attend to a disabled vehicle, but it was not clear how the shooting began.
Whatever MSM. What good are you then. You don't know nuthin', do you?
NEXT!!!
"Suicide car bombing in Iraq kills 4 US troops, interpreter; Casualties had been declining" by Robert H. Reid, Associated Press | February 10, 2009
BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber struck a US patrol in northern Iraq yesterday, killing four American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter in the deadliest single attack against US forces in nine months.
The blast occurred as US vehicles were passing near an Iraqi police checkpoint in Mosul, Iraq's third largest city and the last major urban battleground in the war against Al Qaeda and other Sunni insurgents.
American casualties have fallen to some of their lowest levels of the war since thousands of Sunnis abandoned the insurgency and US and Iraqi forces routed Shi'ite militias in Baghdad and Basra last spring. Only five of the 16 US service members who died in Iraq last month were killed in action.
Hey, what's MORE LIES, huh? What happened was the Zionist news covered the beginning of the operation because it was meant to show the new Iraqi security forces. When they go bogged down and the AmeriKans came in to help, the MSM dropped it like a hot potato. Then IRAN BROKERED a PEACE DEAL!!!
Yeah, I AM SICK of SHIT JEWSMEDIIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
However, fighting continues in Mosul and elsewhere in northern Iraq - a conflict that US officials say is driven in part by ethnic rivalries between Sunni Arabs and Kurds. Many Sunni extremists are believed to have fled north after being driven from longtime strongholds in Baghdad and central Iraq....
Then how come I RARELY READ ABOUT IT in my shit war dailies, huh?
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At least 4,243 US military men and women have died since the Iraq war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Yeah, and they get placed in the B-Section!!!
Despite a sharp drop in bombings, shootings, and killings, security controls remain intense throughout much of the country.
I'm SO FUCKING TIRED of this GOD-DAMN BROKEN RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!
The government announced yesterday that tens of thousands of Iraqi security forces had been stationed along routes leading to the Shi'ite holy city of Karbala to protect religious pilgrims marching there for rituals this week. Attacks by Al Qaeda in Iraq, other Sunni insurgents, Shi'ite extremists and a Shi'ite cult have killed hundreds of people during pilgrimages in recent years.
Oh, is THAT who is killing people according to the LYING, COVER-UP, JEWISH MAFIA MEDIA?
Hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims are expected to visit Karbala by Monday to mark the end of 40 days of mourning that follow Ashoura, the anniversary of the seventh-century death of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson Hussein. He was killed in a battle for the leadership of the nascent Muslim nation following Mohammed's death in 632.
Notice hopw MUSLIM RELIGIOUS RITES NEVER get the SAME COVERAGE as JEW HOLIDAYS in my Muslim-hating Zionist-controlled War Daily?
Ever notice that?
Also yesterday, two Iraqi security officials said four Iraqis transferred here from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay were being interrogated.
You mean TORTURED!
Whatever happened to that shoe-throwing reporter, stink MSM?
The officials said the men had been arrested in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo before being handed over to the Iraqis last month.
Pffft! NOW they are trying to TIE IRAQ to AFGHANISTAN like 9/11!!!
HOW FUCKING BALLSEY and SHAMELESS!!!!!
I'm sorry, readers, but THIS IS SHIT JEW PROPAGANDA and I'M FUCKING TIRED of the SHIT-FUCKS GOD-DAMN LIES, can you tell?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, SHOVE YOUR JEWSHIT PROPAGANDA, you lying fuckers!!!!!!
No wonder NEWSPAPERS are FAILING!!
I'm a LOYAL PATRON and EVEN I CAN'T STAND this RANCID, ZIONIST DIARRHEA posing as "NEWS!!!!!"
