Reply #3: It is a short Article - the plan is worse than I had feared but I think it is tossed out to see the [View All]

reaction.

The "Plan" appears to be no reduction in the surge level of 150,000 troops until Feb. 2008 with 110,000 troops still there 12/31/08, with that level decreasing over time to 50,000 which stays there for 10 years, deployed to the 14 permanent bases we have already built in Iraq.

Of course the 110,000 might be only 100,000 on 12/31/2008, and the 50,000 might be 30,000 long term, and "long term? might be only 5 years beyond 2009 rather than 10, all of these "might be's" being mentioned so the plan is not written in stone allowing our enemy to know our plan, thereby allowing our enemy to mass 100,000 troops at the border to get us once we are only 50,000 or 30,000 :-)

What a load of bull they are throwing on the wall to see our reaction.