Bush and Rummy planning an exit strategy? [View All]

[kentuck]

Do they see the writing on the wall? Do they see the number of casualties that are going to happen between now and the election next November? It's a terrible choice for them to have to make. Yes, they said they would not leave until the nation had been stabilized and a new government formed. However, there is an election to win...
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1107/p11s03-cods.html

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Exit strategy now on table

By Daniel Schorr

With the election just about a year off and public support for American involvement in Iraq waning, the Bush administration has begun searching for an exit strategy that will not further destabilize that beleaguered country.

The administration continues to rule out sending US reinforcements. Instead it's studying a phased withdrawal of troops, to be replaced by a newly reconstituted Iraqi Army - an idea vaguely reminiscent of the Nixon plan to "Vietnamize" the war in Vietnam.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes a Pentagon official saying, "We should turn this over to someone else and get out as fast as possible." At the moment, this is mainly military talk. But political advisers must be considering how it will look as the campaign heats up if US troops are bogged down and suffering casualties...

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