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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Rumsfeld: Exit strategy? Pshaw! We have a VICTORY strategy!

Another sick joke from Rummy, courtesy of Raw Story. It's just this kind of Orwellian double-speak that the GOP has relied on for years now. Hopefully it's starting to sound as ridiculous to others as it does to us angry Dems.

April 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. has no exit strategy or timetable for withdrawing its forces from Iraq and a pull-out depends on the readiness of the Iraqi Security Forces, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said.

``We don't have an exit strategy, we have a victory strategy,'' Rumsfeld told soldiers during a surprise visit to Baghdad, according to a pooled broadcast report from the capital. ``The goal is to help the Iraqi Forces develop the skills and the capacity to provide their own security.'