Bush did the very same thing in Iraq. Only Bush was not honest about it.
When Bush announced his surge, one thing was clear to the casual observer, and that was that Bush's surge had a limited lifespan. Despite extending tours to fifteen months and grabbing up reservists and national guardsmen for repeated tours, everyone who paid any attention could see that there were no available troops in the pipeline to replace the surge troops once those guys were rotated home. To get enough troops to do a rotation and keep the level of troops in Iraq up at surge levels, they would have had to strip other overseas commitments, including probably most of the American ground troops in Korea.
Everyone knew this. Anyone who could read and had an internet connection could find that out. There was no shortage of discussion about it. The only difference between then and now was that Chimpy pretended otherwise and nobody effectively called him on it. The Democrats were largely too frightened to talk about it (par for the course) and the Republicans played along as the loyal ass-fuckees that they are (standard operating procedure). Not a word was heard about it from Sen. John "Did I Tell You I Was a POW" McCain or any of the rest of the pack of brain-washed sycophants that made up the Republican caucus in the Congress.
At least President Obama is admitting what everyone knows is true: We can't keep a large presence of troops in both Afghanistan and Iraq. But that's a level of adult thinking that is simply lost on the juveniles in the GOP and their parrots on Fox News.
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