7.06.2011

It's so hard to say goodbye

US 'offering' to keep troops in Iraq? More like begging for permission to stay. - CSMonitor.com

The Associated Press reported late yesterday (citing the ever-popular White Houses "sources" – that is, officials probably authorized to speak and plant a message in the press but granted anonymity anyways) that the Obama administration is "offering" to keep 10,000 troops in Iraq in 2012, beyond the agreed deadline with the Iraqis to withdraw all troops....

While that word "offer" has been repeatedly used by US officials named and unnamed in recent months, a better word might be "pleading."...

 

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