Posted on 10/29/2004 11:15:39 PM PDT by CyberCowboy777
Kuhaida seems quite the partisan
http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=5958
"What's the Plan?
Kuhaida also complained that RTI lacked a serious plan for delivering democracy. "We can't even get our own people in the United States to vote, how are we going to do that in Iraq?" he wondered. "We needed to at least do some strategizing and thinking, but I saw no evidence that we were doing that."
"There was no plan at all after the war," he added. "The whole thing was running on a whim, basically. There wasn't even a bad plan out there. I am totally disturbed by my government and the lies that were told to me. I take them personally.""
-even an honorable mention on aljazeerah:
http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2004%20News%20archives/April/17%20n/Campaign%20to%20Stop%20the%20War%20Profiteers%20in%20USA.htm
" “There was no plan at all after the war," said Jerry Kuhaida, who worked as a subcontractor with RTI from September 4, 2003 to March 12, 2004. "In spite of what (U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald) Rumsfeld said, there was absolutely no plan. The whole thing was running on a whim, basically. There wasn’t even a bad plan out there.” What few accomplishments there were, were “fluffed up,” he said. "We kept getting pressure to make reports look as positive as possible.” (Contractor tells why he left Iraq. Scripps Howard News Service. April 5, 2004)"
I think I have enough for one day....hope tomorrow is not so hectic...
Me too, unless Bin Laden gets Whacked tomorrow.
He's a bitter malcontent and a quitter. His role in the rebuilding didn't work out as well as he envisioned so he quit and blames everyone else. Now he's just another armchair quarterback who claims he could have done everything better if he had been in charge...
The Demos just lie and make this up..... bald face lie......
Anyone who listened to the news conference with the Ordnance Major speaking would have heard the major very clearly say that he had orders to control CERTAIN TYPES of munitions and to destroy them.
It might not occur to people, but an army on the move needs to be focused on the primary objective: the fighting of the war.
They also heard the major say that he had been given 3 missions: (1) Warfighting, (2)______(I don't remember), (3) Controlling and destroy captured enemy munitions....he expanded that to include the information about certain types of weapons. (Obviously, there all small arms ammo and many classes of artillery and mortar rounds are not of a variety that can do large scale damage to your war effort.)
This puts the lie to THE POINT Kerry had been making:
"That the U.S. troops had not been told to check ammo locations and control certain types of munitions."
The major clearly laid any such charge to rest.
What Kerry wants to do now is micromanage how and why they didn't do a shelf-by-shelf search of every bunker in Iraq.
Why? They were fighting a war!
Nothing about nuclear or chemical weapons I see.
How many people here believe an aid worker was able to speak to a General in the middle of a major military operation???
How did he know insurgents have the weapons?
This Wes Hare guy is a peacenik. Trust but verify...
Why should I believe anything from a state that's spring loaded to secession if Bush is re-elected?
AHA - so I am in good company doubting that a whiney bedwetter "rebuilder" had an inside track instructing Sanchez on how to conduct the war. uh-huh.
He never mentioned anything about it here
http://www2.icma.org/pm/8607/public/Hare.cfm
How convenient that two aid workers had access to the three-star commander.
Yawn!
The Oregonian = NYT NW
I'm skeptical they ever met with Sanchez or anyone high up in his command. It's not easy for just anyone to get an audience with a three- star, or even a colonel for that matter.
That's is a very good point. So good that it prompted me to go back & re-read the article. This time around, I noted that the ''aid workers'' say they ''informed'' Sanchez. ''Informing someone'' can mean a lot of things (leaving a recorded message, posting a letter, leaving a msg. w/ an underling, sending an email...). I think you're right; they never met with Sanchez. W/ that in mind and a fresh cup of coffee in the am, I detect a lot of language parsing in the article along the lines of ''and we were told...'' Vs, ''Sanchez said...'' Lying by insinuation.
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