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Novel Idea – Commanders On The Ground Making Decisions

J.J. Jackson* | February 7, 2008 

If there is one thing that irks a liberal it is when someone that is in a situation and has knowledge of that situation makes the decisions about how to handle the situation. So with this report about the commanders on the ground favoring a halt in planned troop reductions in Iraq you can bet the moonbats will soon be barking.

BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 — Senior U.S. military commanders here say they want to freeze troop reductions starting this summer for at least a month, making it more likely that the next administration will inherit as many troops in Iraq as there were before President Bush announced a “surge” of forces a year ago.There are about 155,000 U.S. troops in Iraq now, with about 5,000 leaving every month; the proposed freeze would go into effect in July, when troops levels reach around 130,000. Although violence is dropping in Iraq, commanders say they want to halt withdrawals to assess whether they can control the situation with fewer troops.

Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, will probably argue for what the military calls an operational “pause” at his next round of congressional testimony, expected in early April, another senior U.S. military official here said. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and top military officers have said they would like to see continued withdrawals throughout this year, but Bush has indicated he is likely to be guided by Petraeus’s views.

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Military planners fear that maintaining the current pace of withdrawals could lead to an unstable situation just as a new administration takes office in January.

“So far, so good,” Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the operational commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said in an interview here earlier this week. “I feel very comfortable with where we are and our plans to reduce to 15 brigades by July.”

What? Don’t these military people know that Congress is supposed to be the commanders in chief of the military? How dare they defy the dictates of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid!

Huh? What’s that? Congress isn’t the commanders in chief of our military? What are you? Some sort of war-mongering, constitution reading trouble maker?

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