We’re allowing people to post comments without registering with TypeKey, thanks to the hard work of Jay Allen and MT-Blacklist.
Here’s hoping it works. If it does, we can go back to the way it was, where everybody was posting with wild abandon and flamewars started daily and bandwidth was being consumed at an ungodly rate…
…uh, Peter, are we sure we want to do this again?
Anybody remember the details of that long-ago published story? Because I sure don’t, but I don’t have a copy handy, and I don’t want to duplicate any major story beats.
PAD
Well, I predicted months ago that Bush would announce a troop pullout right around the time of the GOP national convention to try and take the sting out of the situation in Iraq. What I didn’t see coming was that he would pull them out of places where people weren’t shooting at them.
The statement he gave was, “Our service members will have more time on the home front, and more predictability and fewer moves over a career.” Now I’ve got no problem with this. Pulling troops out from Cold War posts when the Cold War has thawed is a sensible, reasonable thing to do.
The question left open is, is he going to milk the “Our boys are coming home” cow for the convention and then keep them home once they’re here (a process that will take a year or two)? Or, once re-elected, is he looking to turn around and ship them off to Iraq? Is it short-term popularity gain, long-term planning to replace dying Americans…or neither? Or both?
PAD
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