Source AP News via Yahoo News
It looks like Vietnam--oops, I mean the Iraq conflict may be downsizing soon. Sorry, I tend to get the two confused sometimes.
ON A 737 OVER PAKISTAN--Gen. John Abizaid and his aides huddled around tables on his personal aircraft to discuss one of America's pressing domestic issues: whether to bring some U.S. troops home from Iraq this summer.
Abizaid, commander of the U.S. military's Central Command, was flying to Afghanistan after a two-day visit to Iraq. He is supposed to discuss the potential troop drawdown this week with President Bush and Gen. George Casey, the top commander in Iraq.
Abizaid and Casey are expected to help Bush decide: Can they back his desire for a cut in U.S. troops this summer? Or has Iraq's frenzy of sectarian violence jolted them into canceling the drawdown and keeping troop levels near 132,000?
"It's a tough balance," Abizaid said Tuesday in Kabul, Afghanistan, moments before jetting off to Pakistan. Abizaid is expected to brief Congress in Washington this week on troop levels — a topic that's become a hot political issue ahead of November's midterm elections.
I guess the minds have met, and it's time to do our usual "time to run, fix the mess we created on your own" scenerio. We are out...thanks for playing!
How nice of us?
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