I'm sorry, but I'm not buying the whole Bush meme that he ever plans to leave Iraq. The war profiteers are simply making too much money off this war. Then there are all of those oil fields. If Bush really intended to "stand down when they stand up" why don't they have a draft and the resulting million man army that a draft would ensure?
This is going to be short and sweet. I'm stuck with dial-up until Friday.
If Bush really wanted to turn Iraq over to the Iraqis, why don't they have a draft and the resulting one million man army a draft would provide? We are presently training an Iraqi army that has been found to be fighting us.
Many of the "insurgents" have been found dead carrying Iraqi army I.D.'s! 80% of Iraqis think it's ok to kill our troops. I believe Bush has no intention of ever giving Iraq back to the Iraqis! If he did all he had to do was institute an Iraqi draft. He won't simply because he doesn't. But Bush continues to train and equip an all-volunteer Iraqi army so they can continue to fight our occupation of their country. That would explain their high desertion-rate.
Also, an added point, Bush never destroyed/secured the millions of metric tons of Saddam's explosives and munitions caches in 2003, that are being fashioned into the IEDs that kill and maim our troops everyday.