Need help with info and source please (re: Iraq pullout date)

[malmapus]

I could have sworn that before we went into Iraq * and his people were giving a timeline of when we would be out of there (and that Iraq would be funding its own rebuilding via oil export hah!).

Can't find anything on a timeline of getting out of Iraq, was I just dreaming this up?

Thanks all!

[noamnety]

1. a few sources for you

"On April 23, 2003, Andrew S. Natsios, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, laid out in a televised interview the costs to U.S. taxpayers of rebuilding Iraq. "The American part of this will be $1.7 billion," he said. "We have no plans for any further-on funding for this."

"Rumsfeld, in February 2003, predicted that the war "could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6338-2004Mar18¬Found=true



"In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee , Rumsfeld said the division's 3rd Brigade has already reached Kuwait and will be heading home this month. The 2nd Brigade will be home in August and the 1st Brigade will return in September, he said. He said each of the final two brigades to leave Iraq will have been in the Gulf region for 10 months by the time they depart.

http://www.dailykos.net/archives/003398.html

"Deputy Defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a House defense subcommittee in March 27, 2003 that "We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon." In a Senate Appropriations Hearing on March 27, 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, "I don't believe that the United States has the responsibility for reconstruction, in a sense… funds can come from those various sources I mentioned -- frozen assets, oil revenues and a variety of other things, including the Oil for Food, which has a very substantial number of billions of dollars in it."


"April 13, 2003 Meet the Press: "The task is to create an environment that is sufficiently permissive that the Iraqi people can fashion a new government. And what they will do is come together in one way or another and select an interim authority of some kind. Then that group will propose a constitution and a more permanent authority of some kind. And over some period of months, the Iraqis will have their government selected by Iraqi people." On the same program, Ahmed Chalabi, the Pentagon's favored exile, stated: "After (Gen. Jay Garner) finishes his job of restoring basic services, the interim Iraqi authority will be established. And that interim authority will be an authority of Iraqis, chosen by Iraqis. And it will be able to function as an authority in the country immediately after Gen. Garner's job is finished, which should be only a few weeks."

http://64.177.207.201/pages/8_441.html

[malmapus]

2. awesome, thanks!!

major help there :D