Reply #19: Did you notice

[droidamus2]

Bush says he will reduce troop levels 'sometime next summer'. Gee anything going on next summer that is important? Oh yeah, a national election. Do you think maybe he will save the troop reduction to try to help the Republicans in the 2008 election. Maybe lie and say everything is going great and pull out a few troops to allow the Repubs to have some photo ops with returning soldiers.

On another note, this would just about fulfill Bush's desire to pass the Iraq mess onto the next president. Basically he would be able to say that after the small reduction he won't do anything because of the election, and once a new president is elected say that he will defer to let the president elect implement his program. Down the line he can claim that under his watch 'everything was getting better and we had started to pull out the troops'.