> Gosh, I could have sworn I herd Donald Rumsfelt or President Bush > respond to a reporter's question the other day about whether we were > building permanent facilities in Iraq, in which the response > was "no we are not".
These reports talk about 14 permanent bases altogether http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/040323-enduring-bases.htm http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/bases.htm > This sounds like the Bush Administration has been talking to > the French > for instruction as to how the French Foreign Legions worked. Anybody > want to join the American Foreign Legions? > > >http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060626/howl > >"Is the badly outnumbered American expeditionary force in Iraq > >introuble? Is it in danger of being trapped? With all our firepower, > >are we looking at the possibility of some kind of a military defeat?" > > > > > Over the last year or so, the war, or occupation, of Iraq has grown > steadily more unpopular with the American people. I think the Bush > Administration is going to be forced to make a substantial > withdrawal of American troop prior to the coming mid-term election, or face a > Republican rout at the ballot boxes. Of course, the Bush > Administration's policy has long been that no date certain can be set > for withdrawal; because, it would provide a time table in which the > enemy could hunker down and wait the occupation out, but a troop > reduction is coming, and it will be sooner than later. I'm trying to underscore the importance of coming to terms with the truth: the real agenda versus the fake one in particular. This is very important because the attitude of those in power is what brought this crisis about, and outing and ousting them is more important than pulling out of Iraq. Why? Because pulling out is going to be extremely difficult without a really good rationale and plan. The obvious 'best rationale' is to discover/admit that we've been lied to all along and now see that we must set things right vis a vis UN involvement. The UN (obviously) isn't going to back us until the world is convinced we're on the right track, and there's no way to do that by insulting them with more Madison Ave trickery. Sure, we can "stay the course" and try the gradual withdrawal approach, but that has an ice-cube-in-Hell's chance of working. We don't know how strong the enemy is, but we do know that he's not beaten, and that means he will be emboldened by signs of weakness. We may not consider withdrawal weakness, but he will. As the number of troops goes down, the exposure to those remaining goes up. Bring on air strikes and artillery to protect them, and the bad situation gets worse. The "gradual withdrawal" approach is the latest product of the gang who can't shoot straight. They've gotten everything else wrong, and this is just another ill-fated line of thinking. How could they have been so wrong all along? Simple: if a person starts with a lie, he then has to lie more to cover up the first lie, and so on. What's kept us in the dark so long is the magnitude of the lies: we're having a really hard time accepting that we've been lied to on such a large scale. > >http://pierretristam.com/Bobst/library/wf-209.htm > > > >"A Camp Divided. As U.S. tries to give Iraqi troops more > >responsibility, clash of two American colonels shows tough > road ahead" > > > > > > This reminds me a bit of my stay in Vietnam. I live about a mile off > base in quarter originally built by the French. The French Quarters > housed about 200 troops. The French Quarters were built right up > against the Mekong River at a point where another river "T" > into it, so the French Quarters were up against rivers on two sides. My > room, which I shared with a roommate, had running water for showers, and > I equipped it with a small refrigerator. Cigarette, beer and other > products were cheep at the base commissary, which made it easy to keep the > room stock up, and still be able to send most of the paycheck back home. > The rooms came complete with momma-sans to keep thing tidy and to polish the > second pair of boots left under the bed each day. > > The French Quarter came complete with an NCO club that served > drinks and beer, and had a number of slot machine, which never > interested me much. A patio of the NCO club provide a place to sit, drink and visit after > work, and sometime movie entertainment would be shown with an old 8mm > projector out on the open patio. If I was sitting at a table by the > edge of the Mekong River, I could pick up a small twig, toss > it in the river, and watch as the twig hurry downstream in the powerful > current of the Mekong, which steached miles wide. I had a slightly different river view, but did see the same divide between the locals and the occupier. How anyone would think we can win hearts and minds with that treatment is totally beyond me. Bill > Regards, > > LelandJ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
