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WASHINGTON — While “formidable challenges” remain in Iraq, President Bush said Saturday, the United States will start shifting more troops into support roles _ in addition to the troop withdrawals announced earlier in the week.
In December, the United States will begin a new military phase in Iraq _ one in which “our troops will shift over time from leading operations to partnering with Iraqi forces, and eventually to overwatching those forces,” Bush said in his weekly radio address.
Does this “new” plan feel oddly familiar to anyone? Recycled and tired rhetoric. There’s little indication of how this “shift” will happen. As noticed by Fred Kaplan over at Slate, Bush is using Gen. Petraeus’ Congressional testimony as approval of this new plan. However….
…the chart that Gen. Petraeus presented in this part of his testimony gave no dates—not even a projected range of dates—for when this shift in mission would take place. Many Democrats, some Republicans, and a fairly large number of Army and Marine generals would like to see this shift begin now. That is the debate that Congress will be taking up. Bush’s speech is an evasion.
…and delusional, indeed.
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