We're 12.5% done in Iraq. Though we need to pick up the pace a bit. At one province every 4 months, it would take us 4 years to leave.
Hat Tip: Murdoc Online which is also where I got the picture.
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Second Province Turned over to Iraqi's
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Note: the page: http://www.statoids.com/uiq.html shows that the population of the two provenses there turned over to the Iraqies is 12.7%, and as was pointed out there a number of other provenses that are already EFFECITVELY controlled by the Iraqies, so it may well be that the mount of Iraq incer Iraq control is more than 12.7%
Also, in case it is of interest, Note: I have put “my” proposal for an “centerist” Iraq Turnover plan in Gilmors Blog. It proposes:
. 1. Stay thru the end of this year, 2005
. 2. Train and equip about 20,000 Iraq troops/month (withdraw 1:2 of our troops)
. 3. Withdraw as the Iraq provines determine (and perhaps faster)
. 4. Commit to TOTAL withdrawal, and contract re-negotiation
. 5. Pay about $2 b/month until we are withdrawn for reconstruction
Suggest
* Oil revenues allocated per person (e.g. see: Instapundit on WSJ editorial)
* Contracts terms limited to allow future modifications
I suggest that this proposal is not a “Cut and Run”, but a plan for turning over the responsibility for protecting Iraq to its government and people as they determine and assisted by us, and perhaps as they are starting to request.
See: http://wematter.blogspot.com/2005/11/turnover.html and http://bayosphere.com/node/1485/12016#comment-12016
Posted by Mike Liveright | December 2, 2005 3:19 PM
Posted on December 2, 2005 15:19