Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Tom Engelhardt: Stuff Happens: The Pentagon's Argument of Last Resort on Iraq

"It may not sound like much, but believe me, it is. The Chairman simply said, 'We have 150,000 troops in Iraq right now. We have lots of bases. We have an awful lot of equipment that's there. And so we would have to look at all of that tied to, obviously, the conditions that are there, literally the security conditions... Clearly, we'd want to be able to do it safely.' Getting it all out safely, he estimated, would take at least 'two to three years.'"

It isn't a matter of politics or economics, but logistics...which means politics and economics.

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