Bush screws the troops...White House prepping U.S., Congress for long troop stay

So this is what the pricks meant by "the long war."

"...Top officials led by President Bush have begun citing the "Korean model" as a precedent for future stationing of U.S. forces in Iraq. Some 54 years after the cease-fire in the Korean War, there are 29,000 U.S. troops in South Korea in a stand-by mode in case of renewed hostilities. ..."

[link to www.chron.com]
White House prepping U.S., Congress for long troop stay

June 9, 2007, 10:06PM

Officials begin to downplay Iraq status report that's due in September


By STEWART M. POWELL and ERIC ROSENBERG
Copyright 2007 Hearst News Service

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration and top military commanders are looking beyond the promised September progress report on Iraq and are preparing Congress and the American public for a long-term presence of U.S. troops in the occupied nation.

Officials have started downplaying the importance of the September assessment by Army Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker as they work to lower public expectations about any quick progress in Iraq.

Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, confirmed Thursday that barely one-third of Baghdad's 457 neighborhoods have been secured by U.S. forces five months after the start of the emergency U.S. troop build-up that President Bush announced Jan. 10. Fil said he hopes to gain control of at least half the city of 7 million by September.

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