What do you do when you realize that combat unit terms are about to espire in April, you have no combat units to replace them, and deploying additional reservists would threaten national security?
You go in front of the American people, insult their intelligence and try to snowball them into thinking that they will be going home in July...first, because it is my (Bush's) idea, and
THE REDUCTION IS BASED SOLELY on the "recent success acheived in Iraq."
Then you have Gates leak to the media that not only will we be at pre-surge levels by July next year, but we could go from 169,000 troops down to 69,000 by the end of next year.
As if this wasn't enough, you then include in your speech exaggerations on how many countries are in Iraq helping us, and distort many other facts and current conditions there in order to paint a rosier picture, despite two of your Generals appearing in front of congress denying almost everything you claim.
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