Posted on 10/13/2006 10:50:20 AM PDT by Blackrain4xmas
I don't know who made these decisions - my own sense for some time is that Bush has been poorly served by the decisions of the pentagon generals - Abizaid, etc
we have more then enough combat units in iraq - what are they doing? they aren't being used in acute fighting, they are being used as police, driving around escorting convoys, manning checkpoints.
the issue is not "more troops" - the issue is, what are the troops we already have there, doing.
I couldn't agree more. I'm afraid we'll be involved in wars in the Middle-East for decades to come regardless of our actions in Iraq. With Iraq we're at least dictating which wars we fight. This one is about bringing liberty and democracy to people that have no philisophical concept of these ideas.
Good article, btw.
Today at noon on a local radio station I was listening to went to the national news. As I was listening the British General who was to have spoken these words said they were taken out of context. The newsman went on describing what the general had really said and, what he had meant by the statement.
The general stated, the British will never pull out as long as their ali, the United States was in Iraq.
Has anyone checked to see who wrote the story.
I'll take the hit on that. I read about four paragraphs in and figured it was another cut-and-run advocate article.
That ain't me.
I don't write those kinda things.
I'm an advocate of "Finish the job so my son doesn't have to do it in 16yrs"
not
"Let's get the hell outta there, abandon the Iraqis, and watch the chaos just so we can try and bash Bush."
You're full of shit.
what? How so?
What does diplomacy have to do with it? If we leave Iraq it won't be because we were beaten into submission. It will be because we simply failed to outlast the enemy.
You are almost right, what this seems to be all about is 'sustaining'.
Now, I am a few years removed from the fight, but basically thats what our convoys were all about. Keeping the chow hall supplied, bringing in fuel, shower points, latrines, sleeping quarters, barricades, etc.
It is always the case of the point of the sword not being large enough to squash their will to fight.
Shoulda read the entire article
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