MR. CAIN: I don't think the war in Iraq was a mistake because there were a lot of other reasons we needed to go to Iraq, and there have been a lot of benefits that have come out of Iraq. Now, that being said, I don't agree with the president's approach to drawdown 40,000 troops and basically leave that, leave that country open to attacks by Iran. Iran has already said that they want to wait till America leaves...I suppose that nobody bothered to brief the Pizza Guy that the December 31, 2011 deadline for withdrawal from Iraq was a date agreed to between the two countries in 2008 in a written agreement signed by President George W. Bush.
MR. GREGORY: So President Cain would want, even beyond the deadline, leave American troops there?
MR. CAIN: I would want to leave American troops there if that was what the commanders on the ground suggested. And I believe that that's what they are saying.
George W. Bush gave this country's word that we would leave Iraq by the end of this year. So either Cain is ignorant of the facts or he believes that this country can abrogate any agreement that if feels like breaking.
Which means that he is a fool and/or his word is worthless.
Dubya Bush's committment presents Cain (and Obama, and pretty much the entire military-industrial-homeland-security complex, sorry) the same challenge that Jimmy Carter faced with the Panama Canal.
ReplyDelete(That is a sentence you don't get to use too often.)
We said it.
If our word means anything, we should honor it.
Pretty straight-forward.
Huh. We are supposed to be out by the end of this year. Doesn't seem like Cain is going to have any say about it one way or another. That agreement also says we would be out of the cities by 2009. Did that happen?
ReplyDeleteCharles, any agreement can be modified by the consent of the parties to the agreement. There have been discussions with the government of Iraq regarding modifying the SOF Agreement to permit troops to remain into 2012. But so far, no luck.
ReplyDeleteWe don't have a choice.