if news of US defeat in iraq propagate you could start another great depression.. it ain't over until the fat lady things. there is as much withdrawal as there was weapons of mass destruction.. this is just a democratic smoke screen of crisis management and iran is next by necessity to US capital and not by choice. oddly the neocons are not an abbreation just an honest relection of the severity of the crisis in US capital
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From: Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2006 7:53:30 AM
Subject: Preparing the retreat
From: Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2006 7:53:30 AM
Subject: Preparing the retreat
The "new direction" for Iraq being touted by the Democrats is code for a
staged withdrawal similar to the one initiated by the new Nixon
administration in Vietnam between 1969-73. The bulk of US ground forces
ceased offensive operations and departed Vietnam in the earlier part of that
period.
Republicans as well as Democrats appear ready to act on the pending
"recommendations" of the bipartisan Baker-Hamilton group which was set up
earlier this year by the Bush administration to lay the political groundwork
for a retreat. Rumsfeld's resignation indicates that the administration has
accepted the sweeping DP election victory as confirmation that there is no
longer any public support for continuing the occupation.
Significantly, Rumsfeld's replacement, Robert Gates, is a member of the
Baker group, and is closely tied to Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski,
the earliest and most prominent critics of the neocon adventure in Iraq.
Gates and Brzezinski have previously recommended that Iran and Syria be
enlisted to help facilitate the US withdrawal. The US will require that its
retreat is orderly and that it is leaving behind an Iraqi government which
is seen to be broadly representative and nonaligned. The Iranians and
Syrians will be counted upon to secure the respective cooperation of the
warring Shia and Sunni factions to this end.
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staged withdrawal similar to the one initiated by the new Nixon
administration in Vietnam between 1969-73. The bulk of US ground forces
ceased offensive operations and departed Vietnam in the earlier part of that
period.
Republicans as well as Democrats appear ready to act on the pending
"recommendations" of the bipartisan Baker-Hamilton group which was set up
earlier this year by the Bush administration to lay the political groundwork
for a retreat. Rumsfeld's resignation indicates that the administration has
accepted the sweeping DP election victory as confirmation that there is no
longer any public support for continuing the occupation.
Significantly, Rumsfeld's replacement, Robert Gates, is a member of the
Baker group, and is closely tied to Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski,
the earliest and most prominent critics of the neocon adventure in Iraq.
Gates and Brzezinski have previously recommended that Iran and Syria be
enlisted to help facilitate the US withdrawal. The US will require that its
retreat is orderly and that it is leaving behind an Iraqi government which
is seen to be broadly representative and nonaligned. The Iranians and
Syrians will be counted upon to secure the respective cooperation of the
warring Shia and Sunni factions to this end.
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