Comments on: That’s Sure To Overwhelm http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/02/thats-sure-to-overwhelm/ Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:59:36 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Dust http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/02/thats-sure-to-overwhelm/#comment-4197 Dust Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:23:33 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/02/thats-sure-to-overwhelm/#comment-4197 <p>Well, is there a place where i read the entire press conference words so that i can point them out. BTW, Gates won’t have a problem drawing up the plans - he has been workin on just that for a long time, the entire Bush Government has. It was a combination of the increase in troops AND paying the militants to become patriots that worked.</p> <p>Wars are not simple, just as we had Nazi attacks well into 1948 in Germany, we had to figure out and the Iraqi’s had to figure out how to make the new government work.</p> Well, is there a place where i read the entire press conference words so that i can point them out. BTW, Gates won’t have a problem drawing up the plans – he has been workin on just that for a long time, the entire Bush Government has. It was a combination of the increase in troops AND paying the militants to become patriots that worked.

Wars are not simple, just as we had Nazi attacks well into 1948 in Germany, we had to figure out and the Iraqi’s had to figure out how to make the new government work.

]]> By: Spencer Ackerman http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/02/thats-sure-to-overwhelm/#comment-4196 Spencer Ackerman Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:09:33 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/02/thats-sure-to-overwhelm/#comment-4196 <p>At the press conference, I don’t think that’s true. He said he was ordering Gates and the military to draw up withdrawal plans. He also emphasized wanting to keep his 16-month schedule for withdrawing combat troops, and said the SOFA gives a “glide path” out of Iraq. The SOFA says all troops go home by Dec 2011. So I think I gave a fair reading, and aren’t really sure what you mean when you say Obama gave many reasons to keep the troops in Iraq.</p> At the press conference, I don’t think that’s true. He said he was ordering Gates and the military to draw up withdrawal plans. He also emphasized wanting to keep his 16-month schedule for withdrawing combat troops, and said the SOFA gives a “glide path” out of Iraq. The SOFA says all troops go home by Dec 2011. So I think I gave a fair reading, and aren’t really sure what you mean when you say Obama gave many reasons to keep the troops in Iraq.

]]> By: Dust http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/02/thats-sure-to-overwhelm/#comment-4194 Dust Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:05:31 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/02/thats-sure-to-overwhelm/#comment-4194 <p>I’m saying that Obama gave so many reasons to keep the troops in Iraq that he has made no promise to remove them.</p> I’m saying that Obama gave so many reasons to keep the troops in Iraq that he has made no promise to remove them.

]]> By: Spencer Ackerman http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/02/thats-sure-to-overwhelm/#comment-4193 Spencer Ackerman Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:55:25 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/02/thats-sure-to-overwhelm/#comment-4193 <p>I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Are you saying I’ve taken Obama out of context?</p> I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Are you saying I’ve taken Obama out of context?

]]> By: Dust http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/02/thats-sure-to-overwhelm/#comment-4192 Dust Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:34:52 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/12/02/thats-sure-to-overwhelm/#comment-4192 <p>“Reiterating his agenda, he emphasized his goal of pulling combat troops out of Iraq in 16 months” - i guess he did not hear the 4 or 5 reasons that Obama would keep the troops in!</p> <p>It is important to hear not just what you want to hear, but all that is said.</p> “Reiterating his agenda, he emphasized his goal of pulling combat troops out of Iraq in 16 months” – i guess he did not hear the 4 or 5 reasons that Obama would keep the troops in!

It is important to hear not just what you want to hear, but all that is said.

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