CBS just announced Pentagon already HAS a plan for withdrawal

[babylonsister]

-it's a secret but it's there. How timely, no? :eyes:

[Stand and Fight]

1. Yes, how very convenient! What a load of bullshit! n/t

[DebJ]

2. entitled: stay the course

[KoKo]

3. Did they give some more info on this?

:shrug:

[babylonsister]

5. No. It's a secret, and has been, and none of our business, and

they don't want to alert the enemy! :crazy:

[NanceGreggs]

It's just like most unscrupulous men ...

... who explain their 'withdrawal theory' after you've already been fucked!!!

[babylonsister]

6. Oooh, NG, good one! nt

[Frustratedlady]

10. Love it! EOM because I'm laughing too hard!

[babylonsister]

4. Also just mentioned the IG's investigation of Feith! nt

[Solly Mack]

7. Well DUH. There's ALWAYS an exit strategy. Don't let anyone

tell you otherwise. I know many will lie about it and some will speak out of ignorance - but there is always an exit plan.

The war college doesn't make a plan to go in that doesn't include a plan to get out. It just doesn't happen.

America has "plans" for invasions of almost anywhere for the "just in case" - likewise, those invasion plans always include an exit plan.

The problem is - people will lie about it.

[Sydnie]

12. They expected to leave on Rose Bowl floats ... eating BonBons

Their plan to get out hinged on a slam dunk theory. That's not what they got when they got there.

Plans had better change.

[Solly Mack]

19. The "exit" includes various scenarios - always does

But when your President doesn't allow you to exit and your President makes it all the more worse, then plans have to be adapted, yes - but the thing is, the war college continues to adapt the exit plans. It's been Bush that has prevented those exit plans from being used.

The military has been acting on Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld orders - instead of actual military doctrine. Military doctrine demands there exist an exit plan...it's up to the powers that be whether those plans are used.

[librechik]

8. yes they'll release the details as soon as the Dems detail their plan

the GOP bullies used to just cheat off our spelling tests. Now they take our plans, erase our names, and present it as theirs. No wonder the Democrats have no ideas!

[babylonsister]

15. I think you've got something there, librechik! nt

[misternormal]

9. Bullshit...

... The disinformation game

[DavidDvorkin]

11. Maybe it's an old copy of Nixon's secret plan

to win the Vietnam war.

He asked us to trust him on that.

[wryter2000]

18. Ye gods

I have to read the whole thread before posting. You beat me. :hi:

[DavidDvorkin]

29. It was a still a shortish thread when I got here.

:)

[lazarus]

13. The Pentagon

has a plan for everything.

Everything.

We have a plan for invading Luxembourg. We have a plan for invading Canada. We have a plan for invading Trinidad-Tobago.

There's a whole department that does nothing but come up with and update plans. Started with Napoleon. Germany's having plans helped start WWI, too. Sometimes a good thing, sometimes bad, but we always have a plan.

[babylonsister]

16. Doesn't explain the lack of a plan, RE: DSM. nt

[lazarus]

21. Well

We have great plans for war. Notice we won this one, in a way (regime toppled, etc.).

We're just incapable of planning for peace.

[Historic NY]

14. John Kerry spoke of it last night.......

its the draw down of 20000 troops added in the run up to the vote on the Iraq onstitution.

[Disturbed]

20. Pentagon Exit Plan.

50 years from now US troops will exit Iraq if all the oil is depleted.If not they will stay a few more years.


"The terrorists want to control the oil. Our way of life will be at risk". George W. Bush

[Historic NY]

26. Whats sad is we will never see a drop of that oil.........

never.

[wryter2000]

Yeah, right

It's filled right next to Nixon's secret plan to win the war in Vietnam.

[buddysmellgood]

17. It's called draw down Iraq to invade Iran.

[Marr]

22. Well, it's official. They've become Nixon.

Meh- who am I kidding? At this point I'd probably *vote* for Nixon.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. Declare victory and go home

not shocking

[FreedomAngel82]

25. Remember the Saddam statue ordeal and the "capture"

They'll probably fake some nonsense and show the Iraqi's cheering and nonsense and than keep some of them there a little while longer in reality. Just like with "Mission Accomplished" and all the other nonsense.

[FreedomAngel82]

24. I remember earlier this year

People asking about this and they denied and denied and than a few months later I was watching CNN one Sunday afternoon and on the scroll saw the Pentagon had plans to remove troops by 2006. Ding ding ding!

[baldguy]

27. Of course it does.

The Pentagon has plans for invading South Dakota.

[Jim__]

28. Just before the election, they're going to reduce the forces to

below 100,000.

But, at least we know this war is not political or anything.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. It's deja vu all over again... again.

Nixon claimed he had a secret plan to end the Vietnam war, too. Only it turns out he really didn't.