So, the 2006 Mid-terms are coming up and the political coat-tails of Preznit Prevaricating Pendejo are growing shorter by the week. At the current rate that the approval ratings are going, by the them the run-up to the 2006 elections gets here, candidates are going to be hitting up lobbyists for money to send Beloved Leader on yet another undeserved vacation to keep him away from their districts. Which would be kind of funny in an ironic, not humorous way...basically seeing Commander Cucumber Crotch getting paid-off for yet another in a long string of life-ling failures.

Or, they could just withdraw all the troops from Iraq, and let it simultaneously descend in the Chaos and 12th Century as it becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Irani Sha'ria, Inc.

The top U.S. military leader in Iraq said Wednesday there could be substantial withdrawals of some of the 135,000 U.S. troops in the country as early as next spring.

Gen. George W. Casey said that despite continued lethal attacks by insurgents, the security situation in Iraq had improved.

"If the political process continues to go positively, and if the development of the security forces continues to go as it is going, I do believe we'll still be able to take some fairly substantial reductions after these elections in the spring and summer," Casey said before meeting with Jafari.
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Failing to meet the deadline for passage of a new constitution "would be very harmful to the momentum that's necessary," Rumsfeld told reporters traveling with him to Baghdad. "We have troops on the ground there, people get killed," he said.

"The great desire of the Iraqi people is to see the coalition forces be on their way out as they take more responsibility," Jafari said at a news conference with Rumsfeld after their noon meeting in Baghdad.

But Jafari said a withdrawal would require "picking up the pace of training Iraqi forces," as well as carefully synchronizing the U.S. withdrawal as Iraqi forces took charge of different parts of the country.