The new republican plan to get the troops out of Iraq clearly telegraphs our intentions to the terrorists, something Bush has consistenly refused to do. Notice how the plan hindges on 2006. Coincidently, that's when many of these bozos are up for re-election. By doing this the Senate repubs appear to be jettisoning Bush and washing their hands of any further war actions.
Giving the enemy a target year ensures that more troops will die, since we assume the enemy actually wants to win the war. When the escalating death tolls appear, and they will happen in the midst of the 2006 Congressional campaign season, our heroic republican Senators will have it fixed so their competitors can't run TV ads depicting them as "war mongers with no exit strategy while more troops die in vain for a lie".
In sum, it's a squirrelly plan. On it's face it attempts to put pressure on the fledgling Iraqi government to take over, but that same government is still new and is being rocked by terrorists. Saddam is yet to be tried and hanged. There is just no way anyone should be talking publicly about a go-home date for our troops--even if we actually have one.
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