I just pulled this little jewel from out of the past...

[Javaman]

Sort of dovetails into morons* little tyrade yesterday about how the troops were going to stay in Iraq as long as he's* prez...

note the date and count forward...

THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ: TROOPS; Rumsfeld Sees An Iraq Pullout Within 4 Years

December 7, 2004, Tuesday
By ERIC SCHMITT (NYT); Foreign Desk

DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld indicated Monday that he expected American troops to withdraw from Iraq within four years, but he cautioned that any final decision hinged on the progress that Iraq's civilian government and security forces made by then. Asked by reporters traveling with him whether United States ...


http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D15FC3E550C748CDDAB0994DC404482

[Greyhound]

1. This after "...6days, 6 weeks, I doubt 6 months." n/t