So let me connect some dots to paint a picture I don't think is remotely possible:
- Congress is eager to leave Iraq as fast as possible. Accepting only a small remainder of forces.
- Withdrawing through Kuwait will let us leave at a rate of only a brigade a month.
- Congress thinks the real threat is in Afghanistan and that Iraq "distracts" us.
- Congress may send a message to Iran to stop killing our troops in Iraq.
- We have a couple carriers in the region with rotation putting the number up to three on occasion. And we have the potential to have four nearby soon.
Add these up and President Bush will, with the cooperation of Congress, take about14 of our combat brigades currently fighting in Iraq and send them through Iran to Afghanistan. If they topple the mullah regime in the process, so much the better.
The Bush-Webb-Lieberman conspicracy. You read it here first.
