"withdrawal plan.... calls for leaving a large contingent of... troops... behind"
Yeah, they are only NON-COMBAT because the Pentagon is going to reclassify them!!!!
An occupation, by any other name...
Related: Occupation Iraq: Another Broken Promise
"US timeline for Iraq pullout nearly complete; Combat troops expected gone by August 2010" by Pamela Hess and Anne Gearan, Associated Press | February 25, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama is nearing a decision on a timeline for removing all US combat troops from Iraq by August 2010, administration officials said yesterday, ending the war three months later than he had promised during his presidential campaign.
Except he is NOT ENDING ANYTHING!!!
The withdrawal plan - an announcement could be made as early as this week - calls for leaving a large contingent of noncombat troops, between 30,000 and 50,000, behind to advise and train Iraqi security forces and to protect US interests....
And WHAT WOULD THOSE BE, perhaps? MSM never gets back to it!
The contingent remaining would include intelligence and surveillance specialists and their equipment, including unmanned aircraft, according to two administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the plan has not been made public....
Yup, "Al-CIA-Duh" will be staying behind!
An announcement today is unlikely, but he said that Obama could discuss Iraq during a trip to North Carolina on Friday.... Removing so many people and tons of equipment presents logistical difficulties....
Gee, that's strange; I don't remember that being too big an issue when we WENT IN!!!!!!!!!!!
Meanwhile, that CALM they told you about (yeah, slip this in the back half of the piece after you have established us getting out for the umpteenth time these many years, s*** press):
In Iraq yesterday, in the northern city of Mosul, two Iraqi policemen opened fire on four American soldiers and two Iraqi interpreters inside a police station, the third deadly attack on American soldiers in two weeks in the still-volatile provinces of Nineveh and Diyala, the
OOOPS!!! Who knows what happened? I don't belive jews accounts anymore.
One American soldier and one of the interpreters were killed, the US military said. The three other soldiers and second interpreter were wounded. An Iraqi police captain at the scene was also slightly injured, said police officials. The assailants escaped.
EXCUSE ME? They ESCAPED?
Please REMEMBER THAT for the ENDING, folks!!!
The assault highlighted that large patches of northern and central Iraq remain violent even as security has improved in Baghdad and in other areas. Sunni insurgents remain entrenched in Nineveh, especially the provincial capital Mosul, and in Diyala, 40 miles north of Baghdad.
JUST when OBAMA is DRAWING UP DRAW-DOWN PLANS, huh?
What a CUI BONO COINCIDENCE, huh?
I wouldn't be surprised to see violence rise in Iraq now, CUI BONO?
Yesterday's attack occurred a day after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reopened Iraq's National Museum, declaring it a symbol of the nation's stability and progress. Hours later, a roadside bomb killed three American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter during combat operations in Diyala.
Two weeks ago, a suicide car bomber killed four US soldiers and their Iraqi interpreters in Mosul, the deadliest assault against US troops in nine months. Despite massive US and Iraqi military offensives over the past year, Mosul remains a stubborn stronghold of the Sunni insurgency, especially the Al Qaeda in Iraq group.
Yeah, HERE is WHY, readers: Occupation Iraq: Israel's IEDs -- and keep that in mind as you read the Zionist War Daily's accounts!!
Yesterday's assault on the US troops and interpreters by Iraqi policemen appeared well planned, officials said. The attackers had cars waiting for them after the assault, and families of the attackers had also fled.
Umm, HOW would they KNOW whom the FAMILIES are if the ATTACKERS FLED?!!!! If they KNOW IDENTITIES, how come we NEVER GOT NAMES, huh?
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Ah, what's more BULLCRAP served up as "news," 'eh?
I mean, it COVERS EVERY STINKING PAGE of this shit sheet!!!!
