Leaving Iraq wasn't "on the table", it was never even thought of.

From the early days of Dick Cheney's "Salvador Option" being put into place, in which thousands of Iraqi's were targeted by American hit squads, to the use of "suicide" bombers by the British and Americans to sow distrust and fear among the Iraqi's, leaving Iraq was not in the works.

What some people viewed as incompetence on the part of the Occupation Army was actually a well thought out plan to keep troops in Iraq for decades to come, owing to the counry being too unstable to leave.

Instability created by the Americans and British in the first place with their roaming death squads and "suicide" bombers.

As for as Hillary and Obama vying to lie the loudest about getting out of Iraq, it won't happen.

The anti-war candidates, like Gravel and Paul, have been weeded out by the Zionist owned media, leaving Americans with a choice of Israeli-Firsters Clinton and Obama or "Bomb, bomb, bomb, Bomb Iran" McCain.

And the relentless wall to wall coverage of the 2008 campaign by the MSM, will turn off many a voter, who will stay home, thereby virtually ensuring that one of the MSM's candidiates gets chosen...

If things are looking iffy close to election time, well there's always a state or two to steal votes from, like they did in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004.

"Welcome to the United States of Israel"

Bids are now being accepted. Mail them to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. NO REFUNDS!

What's occurring in the middle east is nothing more than the continuance of the US funded 1917 Russian-Zionist-Communist Bolshevik Revolution, the Zio-communist capture of Europe (thanks to the US taxpayer and their blood) and now using the geographic "front" for the zio-communist party headquarters in Tel Aviv (still using the US taxpayer and their blood) to foment overthrow revolution on the middle east. It is what "Israel" becoming a "state" was all about. Nothing more. Nothing less. (Did you know there's a commemorative Zio-coin circulating in Israel with a Rothschild on it for establishing one of the first "settlements"? The same Rothschild's whose agent's guided US taxpayer funds to 1917 Russian terror and reaped massive wealth and, more importantly, geo-political power from WWII? Hmmm imagine that, wealthy monopolistic capitalist's side-by-side with fervent anti-capitalist communist's...) The exact same propaganda and terrorist destabilization tactics used in Iraq are the modern expression's of those employed in 1917 Russia and across Europe, the latter's "revolution" was simply coined WWII to mask zio-communist involvement (the communist versus capitalist cold war standoff charade was next). For anyone to think invading Iraq was a hunt for Osama is literally intellectually insane. Iraq was a long planned one-way ticket for the US to further the zio-communist global revolution.

The Bases Are Loaded

Interesting analysis from The US troop surge, a year later, dated 12 Feb 2008. Here's an excerpt:

....And then there is Iran.

As the U.S. begins reversing the expansion of troop strength — back to the pre-surge levels of about 130,000 — Iran has quietly placed itself in the control room of Iraq's future. Tehran has major military and political tools available to it until U.S. forces eventually leave and has sunk deep roots inside the country's fertile Shiite political power structure.

While the Americans say they have seen a decline in Iranian funding and arming of rogue members al-Sadr's Shiite militia, six key Shiite figures from across the political spectrum have told The Associated Press that Iran is pressing ahead in several directions.

Iran is gaming its future in Iraq on three fronts, the most public of which has been face-to-face meetings between U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Kazemi Qomi. Another session could be held in March.

While Crocker has insisted the talks have not veered from topics surrounding Iraqi security, the Iraqi officials, some of whom sat in on the meetings, say their scope has expanded.

The result, the officials said, was Iran's pledge to stop backing the Mahdi Army in return for the Bush administration lowering its rhetoric about Iran's nuclear program. The Iraqis who spoke about the talks said they believed the release of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate in December was a quid pro quo to Tehran for it having turned its back on the Mahdi Army.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.

The NIE, in an about-face, said Iran had halted its secret attempts to build nuclear weapons in 2003, contrary to White House claims that Iran was using a civilian nuclear energy program as cover to build nuclear weapons.

Since then, Washington's pronouncements have softened significantly.

On the second front, Iran has shunned the Mahdi Army, but has continued sending arms, fighters and money into Iraq. The leaders of these groups of fighters take orders from Iran and are known as the Ettelaat, shorthand for Iranian intelligence.

The Iraqi officials who spoke to the AP said that after al-Sadr announced a freeze on his militia in August, the Iranians sent in seven Ettelaat commanders — Iraqis loyal to Iran who had been training and handling elite Mahdi Army groups in Iran. These at the time had broken with the mainstream militia over the freeze.

The commanders were said to have slowly infiltrated with more than 1,000 men armed and trained by Iran, with orders to continue harassing the Americans with roadside bombings, mortar and rocket attacks — a one-year high of 12 on the Army's 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division in January alone, the military said.

The Ettelaat force in Iraq is recruiting more fighters from among disaffected Mahdi Army foot soldiers and commanders of the so-called "special groups," not only to keep American forces off balance but also as a sleeper brigade that would open all-out warfare should the United States attack Iran, a real fear in Tehran, the Iraqi officials said.

Top U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus said in a recent interview that he had not heard of an Iranian-sponsored group by that name, and noted that Iran's senior leaders have pledged to their Iraqi counterparts to stop fostering violent groups in this country.

But he noted the Americans were always alert for new tactics from Tehran.

"What we're trying to figure out is, has there been some change in behavior? It may have been," he said.

Petraeus said the Iranians continue to use many avenues to infiltrate and are trying to "provide assistance to and gain influence in various organizations in Iraq — some political, some militia, some of these very closely related to the Quds Force and (Mahdi Army) special groups."

Politically, Iran has now cut ties with al-Sadr, having decided his usefulness as a tactical tool against American forces has run its course. Now, the officials said, Iran has thrown its full backing behind the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the country's most powerful Shiite political insider.

Ironically, al-Hakim has been a cornerstone of U.S. efforts to build a moderate Shiite political structure in the country. He has been used by Washington as a counterbalance to more radical Shiite tendencies and is seen as more open to sharing some power with the country's Sunni Muslim minority, which ran Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

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Jeder war ein großer Krieger
Hielten sich für Captain Kirk

I was glad to come
I'll be sad to go
So while I'm here
I'll have me real good time