Iraq 'able to handle internal security in two years'

[sabra]

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=235845818&p=z3584668y&n=235846761&x=

Iraq 'able to handle internal security in two years' :: latest

Iraqi forces should be able to control the country’s internal security within two years, but will still need foreign help to patrol its borders, the Iraqi national security adviser said today.

Speaking in Tokyo, Japan, Mowaffak Al Rubaie said Iraqi forces were moving on the path of being able to secure the country, despite a recent surge in violence.

“I believe in 18 months or a maximum of two years, Iraq security forces will be able and competent to control the security situation inside Iraq,” he said.

“Now, defending the borders from threats coming from neighbours, or coming from outside, is a different matter,” Al Rubaie added.

[HereSince1628]

1. Right, as if the world has any reason to believe that.

[acmavm]

2. Why? Will everybody finally be dead except Ahmed Chalabi?

[w4rma]

3. Hahaha. (nt)

[patricia92243]

4. In other words, right before the elections here in the US. n/t

[Jacobin]

7. no. right AFTER the 2008 elections

:-)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

5. Isn't that what they kept saying right before the '04 election?

[BootinUp]

6. This coincides with the complete collapse of the government

coincidentally.

[gratuitous]

8. Just another four Friedmans

And everything will be jim-dandy in Iraq. Since Chimpy has committed our troops to staying there at least that long, I'm highly skeptical. But the Tinker Bell League of the Media Stenographers' Association will no doubt clap longer and louder about this pronouncement. For a few days. Then conveniently forget all about it, and anyone with the incredible bad taste to remind them of this fearless predication a couple of Friedmans from now will be shouted down as insufficiently supportive of the troops.

[pazuzu]

9. McCain: "We were in Korea for 40 years"

And America will be in Iraq long after Bush, McCain, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, and Condasleeza have died, rotted and decayed.

[damntexdem]

10. Let's see: would that be by November, 2008?

Or January 2009? ;-)

[jwirr]

11. This is what they have been telling us since day one.

[Centered]

12. I was thinking that

didn't they say that 2 years ago?