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Originally Posted by WharfedaleTiger
I don't support withdrawing mate-I think the surge has been a qualified sucesses-it hasn;t ended the violence and I worry that if troop numbers are drawn down it will return, especally if Iran starts funding again. I'm not partisan either way-I opposed the Iraq war but I support us staying there now, it would be wrong to withdraw (One of the few areas I agree with McCain on).
Theres a lot of factors in the recent sucess, the surge is one of them (a big one) as is the Iranian stepdown, increased Iraqi police numbers, a stronger democratic gov't there, and less support for militants, in particular AQ has alienated many. Whats wrong with saying that?
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If our trainers do their jobs we won't have to worry about a draw-down being a problem because Iraq will have an effective military again....which seems to be the case now.
We can then stand-down most of our troops and just leave a few technical support people behind. Most of our equipment can be moved back to Kuwait just in case.