The Military Denies It...It’s Probably True

Today, MSNBC reported, “The U.S. military in Iraq said on Sunday media reports that America and Britain planned to pull all troops out of Iraq by spring 2007 were ‘completely false,’ reiterating that there was no timetable for withdrawal. Two British newspapers reported on Sunday that the pull-out plan followed an acceptance by the two governments that the presence of foreign troops in Iraq was now an obstacle to securing peace.” The British press has been claiming since last December that the UK’s PM Tony Blair planned a pullout of UK troops from Iraq beginning in 2006. Now the UK’s Telegraph has reported that all of Britain’s and America’s troops will be withdrawn “by spring 2007”. But it’s the PM’s saber rattling about Iran that has Brits worried. When asked if Britain will send troops to Iran, Blair said, "You can never say never in any of these situations." The big question for Americans is: If the rumored pullout becomes fact, would the crazy Bush administration engage another country in another war to raise its plummeting approval rating? Of course the answer is Yes, because the crazy Bush administration is crazy. You know for certain that a pullout of our troops from Iraq would NOT be because our troops are an obstacle to peace. It would be because we’ve lost the war on terror, we’ve lost the war to gain control of Iraq’s oil and we’ve even lost the PR war to call naked aggression democracy. Since the White House didn’t bother to take it’s plan to attack Iraq to Congress for a vote, what would the procedure be now for diverting those troops to Iran that were illegally sent to Iraq? The psychopaths in the Bush administration assume they have the power to act on whatever whim comes to mind on any given morning. They no doubt would simply wind up their Dr. George and Mrs. Condi Strangelove puppets and send them out to inform the world that the US had decided to invade Iran. But what would the reaction in the real world be? What would Congress do? What would Americans do? What would the press say? I haven’t the foggiest notion.