turnover

I have put "my" proposal for an "centerist" Iraq Turnover plan in Gillmor's Blog. It proposes:

1. Stay thru the end of this year, 2005
2. Train and equip about 20,000 Iraq troops/month (withdraw 1:2 of our troops)
3. Withdraw as the Iraq provines determine (and perhaps faster)
   
4. Commit to TOTAL withdrawal, and contract re-negotiation
5. Pay about $2 b/month until we are withdrawn for reconstruction

Suggest

• Oil revenues allocated per person (e.g. see: Instapundit on WSJ editorial)
• Contracts terms limited to allow future modifications

I suggest that this proposal is not a "Cut and Run", but a plan for turning over the responsibility for protecting Iraq to its government and people as they determine and assisted by us, and perhaps as they are starting to request.

Also see:

• Second Province Turned over to Iraqi's, Opiniated Bastard
  
• Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable, Nov 22 2005 -- Guardian
• Plan a Moderate Iraq Exit Strategy, Brookings, CSJ
• Iraq's Oil: The Spoils Of War, Guerrilla News
• Officials Optimistic About Troop Draw Down, AP
• Administrative Divisions of Countries ("Statoids") (Iraq)
  

Links:

• Air America programs, mp3
  
• IT Conversations , mp3
  
• World Affairs Council , mp3
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• Center for American Progress (ml3 Requested)
  
• Commonwealth Club, Real Media (mp3 requested)
• Harvard, JFK Jr. Forum Video Archive, RealMedia
  
• Princeton University, RealMedia/Windows (mp3 requested)
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• Cato Scholar Testifies on the Constitutional Limits of the Federal Government, Transcript, Video -- Oct 25, 2005, Roger Pilon

I am Requesting that the material be provided in pm3 format (with Podcast notification) for the sites that do not so do, as follows, of course anyone else who supports this request might notify the stite that they also would like ml3 formats:

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I may have requested this before, since they are generally devoid of
important, video content, also provide a standard MP3 audio feed/file for
the lectures, in addition to propriety video formats.

Note: At the head of the audio, of course you can put a "Copyright Comment" and a link to your restrictions so that people do not use the files in a way that you prefer they not use them.

Then, I'd like you to publish a PodCast for your lectures (and then perhaps
put in Itunes subscribe button)

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Ownership Society

• Bush's Ownership Society By Paul Glastris -- Dec 2005 , Washington Monthly
• The Ownership Society: Why No One is Buying, and a New Progressive Alternative VIDEO -- Nov 21, 2005 , Center for American Progress
• Education and Earnings (Angry Bear)
• MEASURING 50 YEARS OF ECONOMIC CHANGE (1998 Census)