Well, dammit, I just lost a 50 euro bet with
this guy. He bet that the U.S. troops would start leaving Iraq this year, and I told him "no way, dude, there's gonna be a draft, and..."
Here's the article.
Powell Sees Troops Returning This Year
American troops will begin leaving Iraq this year as the Iraqi army, national guard and police force take on a larger security role, says Secretary of State Colin Powell.
``But I cannot give you a timeline when they will all be home,'' Powell told National Public Radio in an interview released Wednesday by the State Department.
There are some 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, many of them under fire, and casualties have been mounting.
There's more.
Oh yes, and, well, of course they're "staying the course" with the elections:
The interim government in Baghdad and the Iraqi election commission want to move ahead with the election and so do the people, Powell said in the interview, which was conducted on Tuesday.
``We cannot delay the election because there are terrorists and murderers and former regime elements who are trying to keep that election from happening, to delay it,'' he said.
Time to invade another country? Sorry that I'm such a pessimist.