American Troop Withdrawal should be in Full Swing by 2008!
November 12, 2006
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
I do not expect a withdrawal to have been completed by mid-2007, but I do believe a full scale withdrawal will be in full swing and accelerating by 2008. Once it is completed the stage will be set for a well coordinated unbroken chain of Islamic command along a linkage from Iran through Iraq to Syria and Lebanon.
The following Report from DEBKAfile of an attempt to withdraw our troops from Iraq within 6 months pushes the envelope from a reality standpoint.
I am sure the two Senators are not seeking full withdrawal within six months as the report seems to imply, which really would be “cut and run.” I feel cert ain they
are seeking a pullout acceleration of forces beginning in mid-2007, with a full departure being completed in 2008. This is basically the identical time scale I put out six months ago as a BLOG ON April 30, which I will include following the DEBKAfile Report. This is in line with a Jihad attack against Israel at some point in time between the troop pull out and 2012, that is,
between 2008 and 2012.
Begin DEBKAfile Report
Two key Democratic senators seek US withdrawal from Iraq within 4-6 months
November 12, 2006, 7:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
They are Carl Levin and Joseph Biden, former chairmen of the of the Senate armed forces and foreign affairs committees
, respectively.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report the Democratic Party is poised to push President George W.
Bush hard to accelerate the US evacuation of Iraq regardless of consequences.
The Baker-Hamilton Bipartisan Iraq Study Panel reports to President Bush Monday. Their White House conference signals the post-election review of US strategy in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. It will be broadly attended by the top Bush policy-makers. Among them, according to White House spokesman Tony Snow, Vice President Dick Cheney, national security adviser Stephen Hadley, secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and CIA Director Gen.
Mike Hayden, as well as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen.
Peter Pace.
Incoming defense secretary Robert Gates will attend as a member of the bipartisan committee. His seat will pass to Lawrence Eagleburger, secretary of state under the first President Bush. General Pace said earlier that the change in Pentagon leadership itself would not have a direct impact on the next moves in Iraq. “We continuously review what’s going right, what’s going wrong and what needs to change.”
Begin April 30 BLOG 2006
Good Information on U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraq!
April 30, 2006
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The article which follows from Reuters by Ibon Villelabeitia certainly fits the previous guesstimates I have made on a timetable for the full withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq.
I have contended since we went into Iraq there would be no attack launched against Israel by ten Arab Nations as long as American troops were in Iraq.
I agree with the assessment made in the following article as to the timetable it states in phases from now to mid-2008, and it is one of the main reasons I believe the attack will occur at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.
After we have pulled our troops out of Iraq, it would take an act of the Congress to suddenly send them back, and we will be quite convinced that Israel can handle the situation as it has in the past, but this time it will be different.
Begin Reuters Article
Iraqi adviser sees US troops gone in 2008
Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:35 PM ET
By Ibon Villelabeitia
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – American troops will probably be gone from Iraq by mid-2008 as the Iraqi forces they are training take over from them, Iraq’s National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie said on Friday.
He said he expected the roughly 133,000 U.S. troops to be cut to less than 100,000 by year’s end and an “overwhelming majority” of them to have left by the end of 2007 under a U.S.-Iraqi plan for progressively handing over security.
“We have a roadmap, a condition-based agreement where, by the end of this year, the number of coalition forces will probably be less than 100,000,” he told Reuters in an interview.
“By the end of next year the overwhelming majority of coalition forces would have left the country and probably by the middle of 2008 there will be no foreign soldiers in the country.”
End Reuters Article
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