[Grovenet] As the spin churns . . .

[Allen Warren]

With the British announcement today they're starting the process of reducing troops in Iraq, It looks like the Bush Administration is explaining the impending British troop reductions by taking the opportunity to use the advice of the late Senator George Aiken to both Presidents Johnson and Nixon (R-Vt) during the Vietnam era: Declare a victory and get out.  

Vice President Cheney, in an interview in Tokyo said Britain's plans to withdraw about 1,600 troops from Iraq — while the United States adds more troops — was a positive step. "I look at it and see it is actually an affirmation that there are parts of Iraq where things are going pretty well," the vice president said.

As for Cheney's assertion that the partial British pullout is a sign that things are going well in Iraq, Speaker Pelosi said: "If it's going so well, we'd like to withdraw our troops as well."

I'm sure Cheney will probably answer back that things in the South where the British are stationed are going very, very well but of course where our American troops are stationed things aren't nearly as positive.

Allen Warren


 
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