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HOPE AND CHANGE! Army chief says US ready to be in Iraq 10 years. ?The Pentagon is prepared to lea?

By Glenn Reynolds

HOPE AND CHANGE! Army chief says US ready to be in Iraq 10 years. “The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday. . . . He spoke at an invitation-only briefing to a dozen journalists and policy analysts from Washington-based think-tanks. He said his planning envisions combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for a decade as part of a sustained U.S. commitment to fighting extremism and terrorism in the Middle East.” They told me if I voted for McCain we might still be in Iraq in 2020 — and they were right!

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).