Posted on 07/09/2007 1:17:21 PM PDT by bnelson44
BAGHDAD: The American ambassador to Iraq has urged policy makers in Washington to give "some very, very serious thought" to the consequences that could follow an early reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq, warning of a surge in sectarian killings in which civilians "by the thousands" could die....
"You can't build a whole policy on a fear of a negative, but, boy, you've really got to account for it," Crocker said in an interview on Saturday at his office in Saddam Hussein's old Republican palace, now the seat of American power in Iraq....
"In the States, it's like we're in the last half of the third reel of a three-reel movie, and all we have to do is decide we're done here and the credits come up and the lights come on and we leave the theater and go on to something else," he said. "Whereas out here, you're just getting into the first reel of five reels" he added, "and as ugly as the first reel has been, the other four-and-a-half are going to be way, way worse."
He continued: "And you've got to give some very, very serious thought to ways it could be worse," including "sectarian violence on a level we just haven't seen before" that could escalate if American troops are not available to restrain the killing.
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Republican or Democrat, I don’t think any American ambassador to Iraq would want the military to leave, unless they could get out of there first...
But get a few bad apples at a PRISON CAMP for TERRORISTS and that story will run for years!
Get rid of the MEDIA- and the libbies will lose for certain in 08'.
Let the MEDIA go Un-Challenged- & the Libbies WILL WIN-Thompson, Romney, GOD or anyone we could put up.
Where the HELL has Rove been! FIRE ROVE!
“In the States, it’s like we’re in the last half of the third reel of a three-reel movie, and all we have to do is decide we’re done here and the credits come up and the lights come on and we leave the theater and go on to something else,”
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It should say that in the minds of the Democrats this is happening.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows better.
Thats lets out half the Senate and half the House and a few cowards in the Republican party that will join them.
The military is trying to accomplish with men what it should have done with bombs. It's too late to blow Fallujah off the map, so let the muzzies do it for us.
I think his analogy is right on.
Do we know if Iraq has started picking up the tab for this? Where is all the oil revenue going?
No, the Pottery Barn Rule applies here. We have to do our best.
But, that done and honor bright......if Islam did fall into an internecine, incredibly bloody war between the Iranians and the Sunni states, well, we could make sure it was a fair fight.....and that the Pasdaran and Hizbollah died like flies -- like flies! -- as a protracted, detailed, and very bloodily complete revenge, and justice, for their infliction of untold miseries on numerous peoples over the last 25+ years.
And while all that was going on, we could nudge the Saudis every now and then and ask them, in a not-too-unfriendly way, "what price now your pious little secret subsidies to the Salafist haters?" while their M-1 tanks and F-15 squadrons and their Saudi-prince drivers ground themselves up against the Iranians.
Some to the central government, some to local tribes and orgs.
Rough "revenue sharing". Not too bad for a semi-civil semi-war.
They need to start paying us back or we need to stop funding or this will end shortly. when the French continued to spend monies on the colonies after our revolution, it did not go well for the french elite.
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