Reuters reports that the Australians are planning to beat it out of Iraq but that they haven’t told poor Bush about it yet.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard is secretly planning to begin withdrawing Australian troops from Iraq by February 2008, Australian media reported on Sunday.
The Sunday Telegraph, quoting an unnamed senior military source, described Howard’s withdrawal plan as “one of the most closely guarded secrets in top levels of the bureaucracy.”…
…His withdrawal plan had yet to be put to U.S. President Bush or to the Australian Cabinet, the Sunday Telegraph said.
Ouch. It’s a good thing Bush doesn’t read the papers or his feelings might be hurt.
