U.S. Advisor: “declare victory and go home” from Iraq
July 30th, 2009
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Col. Timothy Reese (courtesy of Antiwar.com)
A senior military adviser in Iraq, issued an internal memo urging the US to significantly speed up its pullout from Iraq. In this memo leaked to the New York Times, Col. Timothy Reese pushes for the U.S. to simply “declare victory” and have announce that all troops will be out of the nation by August 2010.
Bluntly, Col. Reese says keeping US troops in Iraq “isn’t yielding benefits commensurate with the effort and is now generating its own opposition.” He asserts that America has overstayed it’s welcome, saying, “guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” Read more…