Iraq plan part of grand strategy (Spin me, please!)

[ProSense]

Iraq plan part of grand strategy

By Paul Reynolds
World affairs correspondent, BBC News website

The "reconciliation" plan announced on Sunday by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki is part of a grand strategy by the Bush administration to stabilise Iraq - or to stabilise the perception of Iraq - in advance of the mid-term elections for Congress in November.

The administration insists it will not "cut and run" from Iraq

Other parts of the plan are an insistence that democracy has arrived in Iraq and must be supported, a refusal to set any date or timetable for a total withdrawal of US troops (presented as a weakness), yet with a suggestion that a reduction might start soon as the effort to transfer responsibility to Iraqi forces gathers pace.

The Maliki plan is obviously an important part of this strategy, and for Iraqis far more important than whatever effect it might or might not have on the chances of the Republicans holding onto both the Senate and the House of Representatives in the US Congress.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5115064.stm

[ray of light]

1. This isn't spin. It's lies. Where are the Dems and everyone

to shove that lie back in their face?

This irks me big time!

[ProSense]

3. Yes, this is a lie! n/t

[Rex]

2. Small minded people just cannot admit when they're wrong!

No matter what it takes, no blame or shame or wrong must be put on the people who committed the troops to Iraq! :sarcasm:

[johnaries]

4. Iraq IS part of the grand strategy

as outlined in Sept, 2000 by PNAC:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf