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 The Military’s Iraq GamblePosted on Dec 13, 2006
The Pentagon is expected to recommend expanding both the military and its presence in Iraq as part of its “double down” strategy. Another element of the plan, to be presented to President Bush on Wednesday, is likely to include a direct confrontation with Moqtada al-Sadr and his militia.
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By TJ, December 14, 2006 at 3:20 pm #
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My three daughters will be leaving home over the course of the next 6 years, with the first leaving in 2. This has caused me to focus on the lessons I need to teach them to survive on their own. One of the most important is ‘don’t bet on filling an inside straight’.
I am now learning that I need to modify that lesson to - ‘if you do try to go against the odds to fill that inside straight, bet with other people’s money’. This appears to be the lesson that George Bush and his cadre of generals learned in the elite schools of their upbringing; a lesson that is conveniently complementary to the one that most Americans learn in their public schools which is ‘follow the leader’.
Report thisBy yours truly, December 14, 2006 at 10:33 am #
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No matter these Pentagon proposals, we have only two options, stay the course or TROOPS OUT NOW. Which way will it go? That’s up to us.
Report thisBy chuck, December 14, 2006 at 9:12 am #
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“Double Down"/"Move Forward” are all terms of aggression. It means more troops & equipmemt for Iraq. I voted Democratic to STOP this aggression. W, the warmonger king, wants it his way only, since he can’t ever be wrong. We have an inept Executive Branch of Gov’t… & it seems like they can’t be stopped.
Why aren’t more people in Congress upset about this “ramp up” in troops, equipment & MONIES....& BLOODSHED & stopping it?
Report thisBy DennisD, December 14, 2006 at 8:32 am #
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Great! Blackjack meets the Pentagon. The “Double down” strategy. What’s next comps to the buffet and two for one tickets to a show. Brilliant! our new war strategy comes from a “fact finding tour to Las Vegas”.
Report thisUnfortunately we have a Congress and Senate that is nothing more than co-conspirators to go along with these military clowns.
Cut off the money supply and this nightmare ends.
Way too simple for these learned minds to comprehend.
Countless committees, panels and just plain common sense etc. has determined that is debacle is not going to end well regardless of when or how its done. There will be no congratulations afterward and plenty of blame to go around. And it will go around and around but never seem to land anywhere. Will anyone be surprised?
By GDAEman, December 13, 2006 at 5:49 pm #
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The article ends suggesting that if the US pulls out of Iraq, and there is a blood bath, it will be on America’s hands.
No. It will be on the hands of Bush and his war-of-agression conspirators.
During the Nuremberg trials, the chief American prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, stated:
“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
Read More, See Link to de la Vega proposed indictment:
Report thishttp://gdaeman.blogspot.com/2006/12/bush-and-conspirat ors-should-be.html