The President's New Plan For Iraq..!

[MichaelC]

All we need now is a "Gulf of Tonkin" type incident.

[MichaelC]

Intel chief: Hezbollah may be next U.S. threat

Maybe the prez does have another card up his sleeve.

[shadows]

It is assumed the prez' is improving his reading of the teleprompter but his screen writers scare him as it was noted his face is sure getting thin.

Nero could play the fiddle while he watched Rome burn but I not sure what the prez' is playing on as our flags are burned in defiance of his policies in the world that once respected our leadership..

He is very near getting another world war started.  It is time to start the draft again to build up the army to more than 5 million.

Then his screen writers can use " Reelect him because we shouldn't change horses in mid-stream."   It was done once could it be in our future again ?  

The well laid plans of men and mice?    

[Rico]

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[Rico]

This should go over real well......!

"Blair set to announce British troop withdrawal.."


ooops...!

[aoxamaxoa]

I think this a good article by a writer I seldom agree with....
Make Them Fight All of Us
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: January 12, 2007
"Mr. President, you want a surge? I'll surge. I'll surge on the condition that you once and for all enlist the entire American people in this war effort, and stop putting it all on the shoulders of 130,000 military families, and now 20,000 more. I'll surge on the condition that you make them fight all of us — and that means a real energy policy, with a real gasoline tax, that ends our addiction to oil, shrinks the flow of petro-dollars to bad actors and makes America the world's leader in conservation."
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/opinion/12friedman.html?th&emc=th

[aoxamaxoa]

http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=513
In Senate testimony yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice insisted, under harsh questioning, that the President's plan to increase U.S. troops in Baghdad was not an "escalation," but an "augmentation." But who can quibble with such semantics?

[rwarn17588]

Too bad Friedman was sll wrong about Iraq until ... oh ... five minutes ago.

As my father would say: "I guess he's a bit slow on the uptake."

[Steve]

It will be interesting to see to what extent Congress goes along with Bush's plans.  The military can't do anything unless Congress approves the funding.

If memory serves me correctly, we finally ended our involvement in Vietnam in 1975 because Congress refused to fund President Ford's miltary budget requests.  The military had no choice but to leave Vietnam, Saigon fell to the north, the Communists took over, and the world did not come to and end.  Maybe a similar fund cut off is what it is going to take to get the US military out of Iraq.  We can't stop the various Iraq factions if they want to murder and obliterate each other.  They have to end the violence themselves and take charge of their own future.

[si_uk_lon_ok]

quote:Originally posted by Rico

This should go over real well......!

"Blair set to announce British troop withdrawal.."


ooops...!

Thing is the Britain is in the south which is a lot calmer than the north. I think fairly legitimately the British can withdraw a proportion of the troops without the whole thing collapsing.

I hope Bush doesn't try anything else on with Iran or Syria, because this time I don't think that even Britain or Poland will be dumb enough to help out.

[Rico]

I do a lot of sarcastic things on this board... The true emotions I have for all of this are that this President has done more to "promote" terrorism than he has done to quell the growth of same...

Whoever the next President..  I hope they are a true Politician, Bridge Builder, Consensus Builder, and live within the boundaries of reality... The recruitment of terrorist is easier today than it was under any previous Regime. These terrorist wackos have no problem pointing to the US and turning us into something that can easily be construed as the "Demon Infidels"..

To think that in 10 years or so... Bush will be remembered for being the "Great Divider" and Sadam the "poster boy" for terrorist, to continue down the road to bloody havoc in greater numbers than they have been at any other time, is quite troubling.

To think this man's Father was once the head of the CIA... "Oh what a wicked web we weave"  

[shadows]

Saddam may have been an evil man but he was able to keep control of the population.   He may have killed thousands but how many have we killed and still we are a long way from control of their's or our own country.   We are trying to reinstall a government driven in exile in England.  The English, I am sure were assured that it was another of those "When they see our uniforms they will lay down their guns."   Like the promise of Korea, it just plain did not happen that way.  As the English say "There is unrest again in the colonies."  

In the future we should gather together our allies before we try to expand our own empire because during the last century we failed to enforce our type of government on any other country except for a short time.

Saddam was executed because he was a threat to our government whereas man had always been controlled by evil men.  

So follow now the sheep as the evil men do lives after their internment and the good lies with them in their grave's.

[aoxamaxoa]

"Well, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
WAIST DEEP IN THE BIG MUDDY
Published by Greg Palast January 11th, 2007 in Articles
by Greg Palast
http://www.gregpalast.com/waist-deep-in-the-big-muddy/
"It reminds me far too chillingly of a Pete Seeger tune written when LBJ was saving Vietnam from Vietnamese. It was based on the true story of a US platoon in training, wading into the rising Mississippi, whose commander ordered them to keep going, deeper and deeper - until they drowned."

[aoxamaxoa]

Tax the Rich, End the War

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070122/howl
"Congress should levy a Victory Over Terror tax on the superrich which would expire once our troops are safely home. "

a novel idea

[aoxamaxoa]

"When you watch the absolutely bone-chilling 60 Minutes interview with President George Bush, there is only one conclusion you can come to: the man has no soul."

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2007/01/george-bush-has-no-soul-when-you-watch.html