Posted on 06/26/2005 5:54:23 AM PDT by hipaatwo
We're not losing the war in Iraq from Iraq, we're losing it from the U.S. thanks to people like Senator Hagel. He and others of his ilk are ammo handlers for terrorists as far as I'm concerned. Hagel is a useful idiot.
We have enough troops in Iraq? Is that why we have one Bn covering 380 miles of the Syrian border. If as you say we have enough then a serious look at force laydown needs to be done. So start flaming away on me but hurry up as I leave for the 3rd time.
In the north and in the south life has vastly improved. As well as we have finally done what Saddam did and moved in troops from other tribal areas to the sunni regions. They are rough but getting better, if only they would shi+ in the heads and not on the ground where ever they please.
But hey, Arab solutions to Arab problems.
Wish I could find the link.
This email being forwarded among some of us retired military folks is encouraging ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1430461/posts#43 ) and goes along with what Austin Bay has to say here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1430461/posts#9
Austin Bay has seen Iraq both as a soldier and a journalist.
You might read this for a little insight as to how hard the task is, however, Iraqis are taking back their country a little at a time. Making the WOT harder are the anti-American propagandists who bleat piteously about mistakes rather than the many successes in that country both by the Coalition and Iraqis themselves. It would seem that Hagel, Kennedy, Biden, Pelosi, Clinton, Reid etc. expect something akin to the sound bites we get daily from the news, immediate resolutions. The reality is that extraordinary efforts and successes are being made and not reported in the MSM or MSP. How long, for instance, did WWII take? Korea and Vietnam were actions literally trashed by Washington directing war from the comfort of their offices, our elected, not the military, lost those conflicts by their meddeling.
The Senator should read this and learn to exercise patience - the enemy is :
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Excellent point. There is no doubt that Hagel knows the truth, but is purposely lying. Anyone in his position knows (or should know) there is more electricity in Iraq today than a year ago. Hagel purposely states a lie in order to willfully give aid and comfort to the enemy. Hagel's true desire is to see us defeated in Iraq. Hagel purposely lied about electricity in Iraq and Hagel is lying when he says he wants us to win in Iraq. Therefore true justice would demand to see that POS hanging from a lamp post. There should be absolutely no excuse for purposely putting the lives of our brave Warriors at risk.
We can't forget Hagel's comments when the insurgency peters out and Iraqis take over responsibility for their security.
Not me.
You're the guy (or gal) I'll want to pay attention to . . . even if I don't agree or don't think you have it right, because I might come to agree because you do have it right.
I think I'd do the same if I lived in Nebraska.
Hegel is a viper right up there iwth McCain and Voinovich.
Hegel is a viper right up there iwth McCain and Voinovich.
"I will trust Secretaty Rumsfield and the officers of our military to decide what and when we need to win in Iraq."
The people in the DOD who make the decisions have forgotten or never knew how to win a war. The United States has NEVER succeeded in a war unless they dealt a CRUSHING blow to the enemy. This did not occur in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and, now, Iraq. Each of these wars has, or will at some point in the future, come back to bite us in the butt.
The true military men in the DOD should have been allowed to run the war as they saw fit. Neither Bush nor Rumsfeld fits into this category. From whomever the general battle plans trickle down, be it Bush, Cheny, Rumsfeld; there lies the problem of why the war in Iraq is floundering. If the military were allowed to fight the war the way that they were taught, none of this would even be discussed right now.
Anyone who thinks the American people have no knowledge of the Middle East is definitely not working with a full deck.
there arew some legitimate criticisms such as too few troops.
but he is a defeatist. and no we're not losing.
hom many provices or privincial capitals have fallen to the "insurgents" recently?
the terrorists cannot defeat the US military or even the Iraqi military, that can only be done by people like Hagel
PS Hagel is far far worse than MCCain.
Ive noticed a pattern, like a tag team.
MCCain is mostly ok on foreign policy, while a real pain on domestic issues.
Hagel is ok on domestic issues while a real pain on foreign policy
The border area is a huge expanse of desert. At the same time there are traditional, well identified routes of travel through that desert.
The best way to deal with a desert border area is with airpower backed up with intense surveillance.
Hagel would like Iraq to seem Vietnam by 2007 and 2008. Then he would run for President as a moderate Republican opposed to President Bush's policy on Iraq. He's more interest in himself than in America's security. RINOs like him are a disgrace for the GOP.
interest=interested
Your kidding? Take a closer look at the ROEs.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighting Troops
So Rumsfield and Bush are not a part of Washington? The military is not being allowed to execute this mission, it is and has been a politically run campaign.
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