War’s End?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Foreign Policy, WarWe’re getting hints of what the new war plan looks like…
BAGHDAD, Jan. 7 � The new American operational commander in Iraq said Sunday that even with the additional American troops likely to be deployed in Baghdad under President Bush’s new war strategy it might take another “two or three years� for American and Iraqi forces to gain the upper hand in the war.
If it’s going to take two to three years to gain the upper hand, when will we see signs that things are getting better?
Here’s more…
General Odierno said he envisaged making enough of a difference within three or four months of the new deployments to move to a second phase of the new plan, pulling American troops back to the periphery of Baghdad and leaving Iraqi forces to carry on the fight in the capital. He said he hoped to be able to do that by August or September, but with American troops prepared to move back into the capital rapidly if commanders conclude that the pullback was “a miscalculation.�
We’ll have to wait and see what Bush’s new plan looks like, but these first whispers sound a lot like the old plans.
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January 8th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
so why is bush still over there i thought he just wanted to get a good person on the seat of power isn’t he going a little opver bored with this?