Bush to announce major withdrawal from Iraq!!! I guess that means that in one year, we'll be totally gone from Iraq!!! Yeah right.

That's what Bush said, per the Associated Press. He's going to announce troops cuts in Iraq. Great. I say we take Bush at his word. He's finally begun the withdrawal. That means by the election, in one year, we'll be out of Iraq. Well, or at least we'll have so few troops left that it won't matter (say, what, 5000 troops left?). So I say "hurray!" for George Bush and the Republicans. Come election day 2008, the public will be relieved to see that we have no more troops in Iraq as the Republicans have now promised.

Obviously, I'm not serious. Bush may think he's buying time with these cute little conditional maybe-kinda-sorta troop cut promises, but nothing will change the fact that come the election in one year if we have any more than a few token troops in Iraq - and that means, maybe, ten thousand, max - voters are going to feel betrayed once again, lied to once again. And they know who's been lying to them. The Republicans.

So let Bush spin all he wants. If we're still in Iraq on election day, all hell is going to break loose at the ballot box. And no amount of spin is going to change that fact.