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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
I thought he had...
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The report hasn't come out yet. Hmm will maybe last nights results have an influence on what is to come in US policy?
Still, the spokesman left some wiggle room.
"Ideas like partition had been studied. What you're talking now about are tactical adjustments that may be made along the way. And I'm not saying yes and I'm not saying no because I don't know. What you end up doing, again, is you respond to the people on the ground," he said.
Yep a Whitehouse spokesman responding and already leaving it as a possibility. Bush has only rejected partition -- the Baker plan isn't partition but a union of states --that gives him wiggle room.
Whether Bush decides to heed the advice is an unknown but the plan is sound and those that think so are a growing number and include top thinkers from both sides.
Will Bush be hammered on all sides to change course? I would think - NO DOUBT. Would he agree to just pulling out the troops - NOT A CHANCE.
Are there other alternatives that the US will consider other than stay there or get out. ONLY one that is indeed being considered and yeah Bush admits they have thought about it is partition by some other name.
Momentum is going to build for a course correction in IRAQ. Republicans are going to lose in 2008 if they don't do something. Will they gamble on doing what they have been doing? Will they cut and run and leave the very thing to happen that those other countries say they are opposed to? Cause the Americans dissapear and the Shia's will slaughter the Sunni's. Seeing them getting smoked the Syrians will jump in and the Iranians right behind them.
Do you really think those countries want the Americans to cut and run?