I welcome all on this board to honestly address Powell's statement made yesterday in that US troops will leave Iraq in 2005. Do you find that to be true or untrue?

My statement is this: Sure... American Forces will leave Iraq this year, but guess where? I'm sure that those locations are not known for sure just yet, as there are many to choose from, but Powell is able to make this statement beause they know that troops will be deployed to other locations, such as Syria, Iran, Korea, Jordan, Eygyt, Turkey, etc etc and out of Iraq ... as further conflicts/invasions spreads from BushCo's initial invasion on Iraq.

http://www.jordandaily.com/
WASHINGTON: US troops will begin leaving Iraq this year as the Iraqi army, national guard and police force take on a larger security role, says Secretary of State Colin Powell.

IRAN????

Oh Iran is close on the list of places to go..... sign up soon, get a good seat on the BushCo bus to hell.

Well, my question is this. Sure, the U.S. will withdraw gradually from Iraq. But will we be back there if and when the country is in complete turmoil because European and Arab nations refuse to get involved? That's a scenario I see happening. Didn't Colin Powell say something along the line of: "if you break it, you own it?"

Hi Amy

Yes, on top of our troops being dragged into Syria and possibly Iran in the next 2-6 mths, things in Iraq will deteriate even faster.... but I have the suspicion that our dear sweet BushCo and biased media will sugar coat (lie) about those events inside Iraq. Once we go into Syria, the news media will concentrate on news there.. and doing the same photo ops and training films making us look like storm troopers kickin hard ass in Syria.... but BushCo has a juicy surprise for his dear nimwits (followers) in America.... they'll find connections to Saddam, terrorism, and possibly those darn pesky WMDs.... yeah... expect this to happen. All planted! What better way to make a come back than going into another 3rd world country and 'create' those glorious finds to boost your ratings back up in Bush America?

Again, Powell's withdrawl of troops from Iraq will be in the sense of leaving Iraq but going into Syria.... and Iran... and those others who will resist BushCo in the Middle East. Iraq will errupt from within as this all takes place. A troop's duty to the military is 6 yrs, or it was the last I heard. Our pentagon has hoodwinked sign ups into probably 6 yrs of overseas active duty.

Why are you so sure we are going into Syria? Won't the fact that our troops are already streatched to capacity or actually beyond capacity help keep Bush and co. from another invasion? Why do you think it will happen? Why do you think it will be Syria? Where will we get the troops other than those leaving Iraq? What do we need to know that we don't know and how will we know it?

Hi wliberty,

Well, months ago, and for starters, that handwriting has been on the wall with further BushCo invasions to spread in the Middle East. BushCo really wants a crack at Iran, but as you said... we need a whole bunch of armies to take on other o"expletive deleted"ries and Iran. BushCo thot that, by now, a million new US recruits would have signed up under the glorious neocon flag that now flies in DC and be BushCo's bigger force to further his Middle East invasions. BushCo's only failure in it's control of our media was that other news sources reported the real outcome of this Iraq mess, for which knocked the great 'crusade' of new sign ups in the head.

So.... the next best thing to do is create a success mission to jack his ratings back up America's popularity polls. Thus, to get more desperate ppl out of work to sign up for the military, while painting Syria as the culpret for Saddam's terrorism which is bunk. Syria is no match for US forces, but it will set the foundation for that fuels BushCo's sick missions in the Middle East, that will probably produce (planted) WMDs and some Saddam ppl along with (planted) documents that shows Saddam connected to terror groups. It will be used as propaganda here in America and the UN making BushCo the 'smart' guys who cracked the big case of 'bad guys running amuck'.... while hearing all our favorite repubs telling us 'told ya so'.

It is obvious, that this scrimmage into Syria, will 'officially' commence right after the Iraqi elections for which BushCo will use Iraq as a guise for war with Syria... Iraq's war with Syria. The elections are a plant, as everything else with BushCo. I hope that the UN remains much smarter than that.

This is where Israel now comes into the picture and with Israel cranking up it's US backed supported offense/defense, so will others like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and yeah.... Iran. You get the picture. Pakistan will float in there somewhere as well, but this is how it starts... Israel will fester further in wars on a second front as Syria becomes the heat applied to the BushCo boiling pot.

God Bless us all.

Here is the article available supporting the war with Syria that came on on the 11th of Jan, 2005
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=964

US and Iraq All Set for Strike against Syria. Israel Is Braced for Hizballah Second Front

Below is the results that debka-files reports from demands that US placed on Syria.


1. It will not take place before President Bush is sworn in for his second term on January 20 or Iraq’s general election ten days later.

2. The Americans will not start out with a large-scale, orderly military offensive, but rather short in-and-out forays; small US and Iraqi special forces units will cross the border and raid bases housing Iraqi guerrillas or buses carrying them to the border. If these brief raids are ineffective, the Americans will upscale the action.

3. The Allawi government will formally request the United States to consign joint Iraqi-US forces for action against Syrian targets, so placing the US operation under the Baghdad government’s aegis. In other words, Iraq will be at war with Syria without issuing a formal declaration.

4. It is fully appreciated in Washington, Baghdad and Jerusalem that intense American military warfare against Syria could provoke a Hizballah backlash against Israel. Damascus may well activate the Lebanese Shiite group to open a second front on Israel’s northern border. The Syrian ruler is expected will tolerate a certain level of American low-intensity, low-profile action. But, because of his reluctance to strike back directly at American or Iraqi targets, he will field the Hizballah – and not just for cross-border attacks but to galvanize the terrorist cells it controls and funds in the West Bank and Gaza Strip into a stepped-up offensive against Israeli targets. These Palestinian cells have proliferated over the years, particularly in the Fatah and its branches, encouraged by Yasser Arafat’s cooperative pact with the Hizballah which remains in force after his death.

Therefore, the key Middle East happening in the coming weeks will be US military strikes against Syria. The election of Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian Authority chairman, his invitation to the White House, the formation of the Sharon-Peres government coalition - albeit on very shaky legs, and the talk of imminent Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations, will prove to be no more than sideshows of the main event.

I guess all we can do is keep our eyes and ears open and hold our breath. I guess we'll know in a few weeks. We've been going in and out of Iran too. I've been hopeing the lack of troops would keep Bush and co. from starting more wars. I guess you could only expect that to work with rational people. I think we've already figured out Bush and co. aren't rational. Where will it all end? It's a scary thought.