This is token drawdown intended to quiet the critics. Pathetic. This administration makes me want to puke!

This is the most corrupt administration in US history.

There should be NO US combat troops in Iraq doing anything. The "war on terror" is the biggest fraud in US history. And, is the largest bank (US Treasury) heist in world history.

US taxpayers have no obligation to prop up a non-functioning government in Iraq or anywhere else.

Bush and his entire administration are a greater menace to the US & world than OBL and al qaida.

Bobby Gates is just as deluded as the imperial presidency he serves.We will be in Iraq well into the next presidency of her imperial highness queen Hillary and her white trash husband,king Bill.A lot of high ideals at the Pentagon and at CIA when he was DCI:lots of idealism with no substance.

Stop this unjust war so these extremeists can re group and re organize, then we can fight them in LA and NY after they are properly armed. Or we could all just convert now!

I can't count how many times the White House has promised a troop reduction. And not a single one has happened outside of required combat deployment rotations.

Yafi - you are just plain wrong. There will never be any fighting over here. Are they going to arrive in battleships? You have a paranoid perception, and evokes the "pre-emptive war" approach favored by neocons, and certainly is no excuse for this war. Give it up. Your reasoning is insane.

We've been con by con man Bush & Cheney. There were 130,000 men before the surge and added 30,000 during the surge. Now he wants to withdraw the 30,000 and leave 130,000. What a con artist. He is a corrupt businessman and war profiteer. We're staying because of oil and Haliburton. I said before the war, it was for oil and I say it is still for oil.

January 20, 2009 seems like it will never come........

Listen to all the diatride coming from the leftists here.

Who do they think they are trying to impose their ideologies here?

The US president whoever he or she may be
has an obligation to defend freedom of Americans both at home and abroad. If that means fighting terror abroad than let it be.

yeah, keep believing that this war is about terror.

Pity that only a bunch of MoveOn.org sheep post here.

If this war is not about terror then what is it about?

9/11 was one example and many before it and many after it....you want us to believe anything else please explain those terrorist acts.

Get a life you complete and utter .....!

One million civilians dead in Iraq...obsurd.

Almost as bad as the survey done by Lancet.

Why don't the Democrats try proposing a SOLUTION then? A quick pullout is definitely not a solution. It's that simple. Whether we like it or not, we have to fix what Democrats as well as Republicans started when they voted for the invasion, including the Presidential candidates. I don't hear any Democrat saying anything other than pullout.

The Democrats do not have a solution. They want to quit and run and not worry what will follow. They forget the "killing fields" and the aftermath of Vietnam's surrender.

Let us listen to the Democrats shall we?

Please lets "cut and run". That is the only solution to this mess.

"Cut and run" is precisely what the enemies of the US are hoping for.

Sometimes one wonders who these enemies really are?

If this is a just and noble war, let Mitt Rommney's kids and George Bush's daughters get on board. Why don't we have a draft? Certainly seems like a small price to pay for freedom, if that is what this is really all about.

I hate to see our kids go to war. But what choices do we have? Some day we may all have to fight in one way or another.

The British Royals were not exempt from harms way. Rommney's kids, Bush's kids or Clinton's kids are not necessarily exempt.

If this is this administration's best case scenario for 2009, I don't want them to tell us what the worst case would be. They have screwed the world up so bad we will probably be in a 3rd world war soon because of GWB.

Because of GWB you have been spared a WWIII my friend Ron above.

What will happen when he leaves office is anyone's guess.

What GWB has done is remarkable, you should thank him.

This war is not about freedom for the Iraqi people. This war is about money pure and simple. The United States can not and will not leave Iraq until the Iraqi government is stable and can defend itself against itself against its neighbors. Pelosi and Reid know this and that’s why they talk about one thing and do something else. Our government (since Carter was President) believes that we must have a “balance of power” in the area. This is why Ronald Regan sent weapons to Iraq during their war with Iran, we didn’t want Iraq to win but didn’t want them to lose either. George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and our new congress believe that if we leave Iraq now, Iran will surely go into Iraq and Israel destroying the economies of the western world. Consider our world if gasoline was $12.00 a gallon, heating oil prices increased three to five fold, and everything we touch or eat increase proportionately. George Bush’s error was disrupting the “balance of power” in the first place, now that we are there our children and grandchildren can not afford for us to leave until this balance if restored. It does not matter who is elected to congress or the white house in 2008, the US will be in Iraq for years.

Find it funny about a few things.
All of you that want to start with this war thing.
Obviously you forgot how the so called "war" (oil for food oh wait just oil for bush to sell to offshore clients) started. We were lied to people. This is not war, it is a pathetic attempt for bush to get revenge for the war his father started, second, last time I checked this so called war was because we were attacked by some odd group called al Qaeda or however you spell it. In Afghanistan. And some guy claiming responsibility, named bin laden wasn’t it? How THE HELL does that have anything to do with Iraq?
Like I said you keep thinking it’s the war, and there will be people laughing at you. By the way give up on the political stuff. This is America; last time I checked it was 1 country. You have played right into the gov and bush being their little left to right puppets. Wake Up. This is America not 2 countries. We the people. We must all stand as one and come together with one nation and stop letting gov and the president try to take our land and country away from us.
Who are we at war with?
Seems to me the Iraq (bath party) military was defeated in the first 3 weeks. We are battling now right? Who are we battling? Let me get this right almost all terrorists are coming from different countries to Iraq correct? So we are funding a "war" in a country that we are trying to rebuild? How does that work again? Billions for a country we are having people coming to to blow up./ nice. Where are they coming from? Afghanistan and Iran? Oh yeah. So why are we not invading them since that’s where they are? Oh because no oil to give bush? nah couldn’t be./ so let’s keep funding something called a "war" that is not a war at all, only to invite terrorists to come in and blow it up and kill innocent people, and to keep runing the buildings we rebuild only to spend more money rebuilding it so we can say we have a mission in Iraq? ahahahahahahaha! Bring our troops home for a break and let’s do the right thing go after terrorists where they are not by war, but by secret missions like it should be done. Get real, stop telling bush he is right by standing down to his bs. WE THE PEOPLE! One as a nation, standing in unity under one nation. Do not let the gov take over our lives, we the people own this country, let’s take it back.
Oh and one other thing. If you check the news one year before the war, Bush talked about starting a war with Iraq long before he was president, as well he wanted to start this war to escalate the missiles he was already shooting into Bagdad along with Britain almost 1 year before the 9/11, between April to June 2001. Look it up. So does that seem a bit odd? That a war did start but for so called different reasons. Who blew up the wtc again? And like I said who are we suppose to be at war with?
The Smart One

Thank you GWB - for sending the U.S. back to the 1950s but broker. Happy now, Kotaras?

I watched several of the media pundits shows and in the table discussions even the people at Fox, were so fed up with the war that they didnot have an answer and wanted to pass on their 30 second sound bites to others in the discussion.

Stephanopolis, and Company did no better at trying to stay the course in
a failed policy. Ron Paul said it best
when he said just bring them home, and he did not mean just Iraq, 50 years in
Europe, Korea, Japan and anywhere more than enough for embassies.

It is time for nation building here in
our Constitutional Republic, where half
the voting public does not want to vote.
Where over 70% of the Public does not like our representitives. Where the people are tired of voting for the same
type of Elitist stooges that give us the
same results after promising change. They know something is right and do not wwant to partisipate in insanity! For doing the samething over and over again is the deffinition of insanity if you
expect a different result. Wake up
and take your country back! Vote for the only sane policy, Vote for Ron Paul
for assured change. Look at your grocery bills and the price of gas. Pprosperity does not have a 20% rise in pprice. Cheers,