Better yet, how about we reduce it to no months. Bring our troops home now.

The surge worked, I had no doubt knowing the capabilities of the troops despite being led by a village idiot. I feel the surge was simply bringing troop levels to where they should had been from the start had Georgie listened to his commanders!!! Now he wants to celebrate after working his troops past the breaking point. Georgie will be remembered as a village idiot forever yet our troops will be remembered as the best ever having dealt with this moron for the duration!!!

Election in november, and now things begin to change in iraq. The white house is in complete manipulation ( chess game ) there in iraq. Don't worry, they have plans for more war. I'm about ready to stick my head in the sand like the rest of business criminals , sheeple , and the my life is ok and safe here in Mason, Michigan so i'll go around with blinders on and wear a guilty look on my face people.

as always on ABC, reading the inane drivel in the comments after the story, I feel less intelligent for having read them.

Ugh, isn't this idiot gone yet?? Only a few more months... just a few more months...

Go away already, you weaseley squinty-eyed jerk!

as a soldiers wife who has a husband currently serving a 15 month tour in Iraq, does this mean he will come home in 12 months or that those who are getting ready to deploy will only serve 12 months over?

Bush makes plans?

Iraq should of freed themselves? Just like America did? I guess everyone forget that fact that we had military aide from the French during our revolution, and there were 13 FUNCTIONING colonies that had leadership and could posses and make weapons and was fighting and enemy that had to come from across the sea.

But yeah, those Iraqis should of done it all by themselves if they really wanted freedom right? Lets not forget that all the weapons and food were controlled by the baath party in every Iraqi town, for those of you who were not there or never bothered to actually look at the facts before you jumped on board the anti-war bandwagon.

4000 Americans dead, but no one seems to care about the 17,000 Americans that die EVERY YEAR from drunk drivers for NO REASON. And more than that just from other accidents. Lets not forget that these soldiers are voluntarily re-enlisting 3 or 4 times (in infantry units) to go back on deployment.

But I guess for all of you humanitarians, its okay to leave 50 million people under an awful dictatorship as long as some Americans don't die.

To cite American losses as a reason to pull out or that we should not of been there in the first place betrays a staggering lack of understanding of the situation and progress in Iraq.

70% of all military operations are now performed by Iraqis.

"Troop Tours to be Reduced"

Come on.

This guy uses our troops for political propaganda.

Armando is one of 3 people who has said anything that even sounded like they had done more than at like the sheep the american public is accused of being

Send Bushco with all his family
to Iraq together with all this f....n
congress

As the proud mom of a Marine who recently came home after proud service in Iraq, I think it is relevant to say something I heard from my son.

The Iraqis, unlike us, lived under an extreme dictatorship for decades--their fighting spirit had been squelched by an oppressive dictator. Our presence is helping the Iraqi people to come into their own--so to speak.

I personally disagree with the way we entered the Iraqi war--I do believe the deception the US citizens suffered was unnecessary. However, our troops are in Iraq and doing a PHENOMENAL job in less than agreeable conditions. Those brave men and women--our children and the parents of the generation now being born--are dedicated to their jobs and doing one HECK of a job. They deserve our respect and our loyalty--not a bunch of rhetorical BS.

I would hate to see our troops returning now to face the same conditions our returning VietNam war veterans faced in the political arena.
These men and women are doing the job they are trained to do and doing it well. If nothing else results from my post I want them to know that I am proud of their service and their sacrifice. And I am proud of their families for their support of not only their family members but also for their support of other families in their situation.

For all of those political bleeding hearts out there--there is a little more to this war situation than theory and opinion--there are real humans out there doing a job that quite frankly I wonder if they would be up to doing if action was required of them.

I'm proud of my son and the men and women who served with him. And I am not afraid to say so. They lost a member of their company during this deployment--we know about casualties--however the man who gave his life was a dedicated Marine who was also dedicated to the people he served with in a foreign land.

I am off my soap box. Thank you for listening.

Maybe he will do what Hitler did at the end or he needs to tried at The Hague for Genocide.

This probably means a qicker turn around to go bsck.

This is not news. Our son is a career soldier who returned from a 15 month tour in late January 2008. His unit is scheduled to go back for a 12 tour starting February 2009. Our soldiers have known for months that tours were being reduced from 15 to 12 months. So, I say again – This is not news.

Why do Republicans hate our troops? Money from oil that's right. They all get richer while the rest of us stay poor and continue to get poorer since they are making our currency worth sh!t!

oooo poor, poor jstilabo...waaahhhh...

You know this is great for those going over there now. But it sucks for those of us who's soldiers went over there already 11 mos ago on a 15 mos tour. OUR soldiers don't get a break and we the families don't get a break and get to have our loved one come back home!!! If the President really wanted to do something good for his troops, he'd start sending those troops home that've been there closest to their 15-12 mo end of their deployments. Then he'd get more support from the families back home.

I mean I'm happy that in the future, the troops will only have to serve 12 mos, SOMEONE needs to think about the troops already there. And give them a break and send them home already.

obama is only going to pull our troops out of iraq for a few months before placing them in iran for the new war on the horizon....

not to be a downer or rain on anyone's parade, but war with iran is imminent!!

Statement for Tom! I've done two tours in Iraq and my wife is on her second tour as we speak. Have you lost any friends in Iraq due to enemy fire? Our troops have done an outstanding job in Iraq and it's time to come home. I hope that Obama pulls out the troops because with ot without troop presence in Iraq, there is still going to be an ongoing religious war. Our troops need to be home to support OUR country and refocusing on their families.