>>>DO you think Bush really wants to keep troops there if they aren't needed.<<<
Have no idea what Bush wants. Do you? He's made enough fu#@ed up decisions by now that I would never make a fool of myself trying to second guess the moron.
>>>We both don't know what happening on the political front and what progress has or hasn't been made.<<<
Actually I think we both know exactly what's happening on the political front which is exactly nothing. When something worthwhile does happen I guarantee you we will hear about it through televised grandstanding in the rose garden.
>>>Congratulations on finally acknowledging that the surge has worked in it's first objective.<<<
I didn't say that. I said things seem to have calmed down but I don't think either you or I know why. Is it because a lot of troops have been deployed in what used to be the most violent areas, creating temporary stability? Or have those troop levels driven the trouble to other, more remote parts of the country where news coverage is spotty? Or has there been a naturally occurring ethnic cleansing where many sunnis and shiites have gone separate ways?
Whatever the case, I can't bring myself to thinking that 30,000 additional troops all of a sudden resolved a 1,000-year old tribal rift and made everyone forget who 3 1/2 years ago invaded and destroyed their country, slaughtering 2% of the population in the process.
