Friday, August 6, 2010

This Should Make Tariq Aziz Happy: Iraq: We’re ‘Withdrawing’ – But Not Leaving


In Bizarro World, "withdrawing" means "staying"

by Justin Raimondo, August 06, 2010

"...Oh happy day! But, wait – not so fast …

Like everything else in our oh-so-modern world, things are not quite what they seem: "complexities" get in the way. So let’s look at what is actually happening, not what the President and his amen corner would like us to see, before we throw our hats in the air....

Secondly, we aren’t leaving at all – there’s that bothersome "transitional force" (as the Prez puts it) of up to 50,000 troops. Oh, but these soldiers won’t be "combat troops" (never mind that they’ll be fully armed, and backed up by an equal number of "private" contractors). When up against the intractable reality of Iraq’s chaos, the Obama administration simply redefines "combat troops" as "training and support" troops.

Presto-change-o! That was easy, now wasn’t it? ....."

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