Obama Administration Invents Reason To Keep Troops In Iraq Forever
Deadlines are for losers, right? The Obama Administration will ignore a deadline this year to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, because why not. Defense Secretary/CIA chief/Clinton hack Leon Panetta will reportedly keep 4,000 U.S. troops in Iraq for "training," which is always a great trouble-free way to keep the United States' claws all over the world, forever. Panetta probably remembers this from when he served as a U.S. Army intelligence officer during America's war against Vietnam.
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is supporting a plan that would keep 3,000 to 4,000 American troops in Iraq after a deadline for their withdrawal at year’s end, but only to continue training security forces there, a senior military official said on Tuesday.
The recommendation would break a longstanding pledge by President Obama to withdraw all American forces from Iraq by the deadline.
Well ofcourseit would break a "longstanding pledge by President Obama." It's not an Obama Administration policy unless it breaks a longstanding pledge by Barack Obama. [ NYT ]
Read the article. The 3,000 to 4,000 troops is what Panetta is asking for. Both the administration and the Iraqi government have yet to agree to it.
Not only does no one remember Vietnam, no one remembers "Daddy, what's Vietnam?"