{"id":192719,"date":"2009-03-02T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/02\/my-thoughts-on-obamas-iraq-withdrawal\/"},"modified":"2009-03-02T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T05:02:00","slug":"my-thoughts-on-obamas-iraq-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/02\/my-thoughts-on-obamas-iraq-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"My Thoughts on Obama&#8217;s Iraq  &#8220;Withdrawal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that he got played by the military.  There are likely to be over 100K troops until year&#8217;s end, because General Ray Odierno wants them there for elections, and over 50K for a stabilization force until the 2nd half of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>I think that Obama did not want to deal with the &#8220;death by 1000 leaks,&#8221; that Clinton saw on gays in the military, and felt that some senior army officials, particularly Ordierno, who have already pretty much said that they would <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ignore<\/span> the status of forces agreement.<\/p>\n<p>This should have been fixed in 1993, by Bill Clinton firing Colin Powell for insubordination, and could be fixed <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">now<\/span> by firing Ordierno if he steps out of line.<\/p>\n<p>Truman&#8217;s precedent with MacArthur stands, and should be enforced.<\/p>\n<p>In the short run, Obama needs to start pulling out the extensive infrastructure at the &#8220;superbases,&#8221; such as maintenance and communications, so as to reduce the military utility of these facilities for use outside of Iraq, as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that he got played by the military. There are likely to be over 100K troops until year&#8217;s end, because General Ray Odierno wants them there for elections, and over 50K for a stabilization force until the 2nd half of 2010. I think that Obama did not want to deal with the &#8220;death by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,1006,978,1098,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-military","category-politics","category-war","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}