I haven't read about the timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq that George the Lesser has proposed, but I'm sure the first of the withdrawals comes in the last week of October, just before the November elections.
Does anyone else wonder what the plan is for the long-term stability of Iraq? Is the U.S. going to continue to govern the country through its puppet government once the consulate, the 750-million-dollar self-sufficient Xanadu in the desert, is completed? Does anyone else fear that the U.S. will, through third parties (Remember the Iran-Contra affair orchestrated by CIA-chief, George Bush the First?), permit Iraq to acquire nuclear weapons as a deterrent to the fear that Iran will one day far in the future have a nuclear device?
What a deal: Yes, by all means, Mr. Bush, withdraw your troops from our country for political gain at home, but give us the Bomb in case you want us to nuke Iran for you.
India, unfettered by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, would be an ideal ally to supply Iraq with the necessary material and manpower -- outsourcing the Iraqi nuclear weapons program, so to speak.
It's just a thought.
Posted by Bill at June 29, 2006 02:20 PMYes, I wonder about the long-term stability of Iraq all the time. I find it extremely difficult to believe that a country who has known nothing but war for hundreds of years, could remain a democracy, if we leave over there. I don't believe this "pandora's box" will ever be closed, as I have stated before. I am anxious to see if troops will come home in October also.
Posted by: Trace at June 30, 2006 08:30 AMWe are inundated with promises here, our elections are soon. I will be writing to you from Utopia in the future.
Posted by: Anji at July 2, 2006 04:22 AM