Troops out by early '07--oops, nevermind...just joking.

Source: People

I guess the left hand really doesn't know what the right hand is doing in military leadership.

Case in point: the on again, off again news releases today on future military withdrawals.

You got to love this stuff.

Britain and US planning to withdraw troops from Iraq by early 2007.

We have a plan: troops coming out in '07; "Game Over".

The United States and Britain are considering pulling their troops out of Iraq by the spring of 2007, two British newspapers reported in their Sunday editions.

The Sunday Telegraph quoted unnamed senior military sources as saying that the plan to withdraw the troops came as both Washington and London have decided that the presence of coalition forces in Iraq was fueling insurgency.

The push for the withdrawal came mainly from London, the paper said, adding that the move is likely to be welcomed by all 24 coalition members "given the growing international unpopularity of the war."

Um, well, not exactly.

Message is thrown in reverse, emergency breaks activated--we have entered the full spin zone. The game is on!!

Military denies withdrawal plan.

BAGHDAD (Reuters)--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.

But a spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq reiterated previous statements by U.S. and Iraqi officials that foreign troops would be gradually withdrawn from the country once Iraqi security forces were capable of guaranteeing security.

"This news report on a withdrawal of forces within a set timeframe is completely false," Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson said of the stories in Britain's Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Mirror, which quoted unnamed senior defense ministry sources.

I guess I'm confused at our sense of direction right now. We will have to wait till the end of next week to really find out what is really going on. I hope someone with leadership ability can make up their mind by then.