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...Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada praised Bush?s ?increased candor,? but complained that ?too much of the substance remains the same.? Indeed, Bush included broad hints that troop reductions are coming next year, but he did not talk about any specific dates or numbers. ?Our forces in Iraq are on the road to victory-and that is the road that will take them home,? he said. So Bush, his credibility and likability eroded by a war with no clear end, is promising the nation there is light at the end of the tunnel-and now must keep convincing...
...generals would agree with him. The trouble is, Dean-as always-seemed downright gleeful about the bad news. He seemed to be rooting for defeat. More subtle but no less feckless is the curious case of John Kerry, who has been calling for the withdrawal of 20,000 American troops as soon as the Iraqi elections are completed on Dec. 15. He has said this knowing full well that the Pentagon is planning to reduce the force by 20,000 after Dec. 15 as part of its normal troop-rotation schedule. One hopes he won't be so crass...
...Batman and Robin) and George W. Bush as The French Tickler, and the trio ultimately puts Reagan back to rest. “I wanted to see what would happen if I introduced two poor black street people into the mix,” says Young. With a troop of bad guys in turbans and plenty of racial humor, “Reagan Returns” seems likely to offend the oversensitive, or even just the sensitive. But Young insists that the movie doesn’t target any particular groups. He himself espouses a “live...
What conditions need to be met to begin a troop drawdown...
...this stage, almost no one is talking about a rapid, large-scale troop drawdown. Inside the Pentagon, officers privately caution that troop levels could even rise if Iraqi security forces don't shape up as expected, if the insurgency grows more fierce or--of greatest concern--if civil strife evolves into full-fledged civil war. In fact, a senior Pentagon official tells TIME that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asked his planners last week to make sure they have a contingency option if things go very badly in Iraq next year...