Gary Hart Predicts Bush to Announce Iraq Exit Strategy

[kpete]

An October Surprise
Gary Hart

Depending on the fate of Senator Joe Lieberman on Tuesday, it should come as no surprise to anyone when (not if) the Bush administration announces a dramatic plan to exit Iraq sometime before the Congressional elections this fall.

As an increasing number of Republican Members of Congress confront unhappy, sometimes angry, constituents finally fed up with the absence of purpose in the continued U.S. occupation and the death and dismemberment of young American troops for no purpose having to do either with combating the jihad or making the U.S. secure, they will demand White House rescue for their political careers.

Since, with precious few exceptions, political careers trump principle, and since the cabal of neoconservatives and the religious right intend to govern forever, the genius Karl Rove will concoct a patently phony Iraq exit strategy.

more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/an-october-surprise_b_26589.html

[whosinpower]

1. Easy peasey

Cause the US is going to IRAN....See? they have exited Iraq and entered Iran.

[zippy890]

4. yeah, but.. now the shia majority is running a lot of Iraq

and they're allies with Iran.

so we exit from Iraq(Baghdad, Shia & Sunni areas) to...Kurdistan? formerly part of Iraq but now
its own nation-state and still allies with the US govt.

[Olney Blue]

2. Ah yes. Political death is much more dreaded than our troops' death.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Will they have Kissinger announce "peace in our time"?

Wasn't that the October surprise in '72?

[seemslikeadream]

5. He's the man

A million deaths, humiliating defeat, devastating three countries, producing upward of a million casualities and left 20,000 American soldiers dead on his watch alone.