Posted on 07/02/2004 10:35:56 PM PDT by neverdem
And it looks to me like the IP are off to an agressive start with respect to counterinsurgency. Political correctness was stifling effectiveness - witness Abu Ghraib.
Apply tag line and retire for the night.
And we won't have to worry about the "civil rights" of the captured terrorists. We can just hand them over to the IP.
We could never keep American support for a long, drawn-out and increasingly bloody occupation. But we can keep it to defend an ally under assault by enemies opposed to freedom. In politics, perception makes all the difference. It looks like we're on the right track now in Iraq.
The NYT wits must be real nervous.
I agree with you...
Of course it would take the President and Secretary of Defense, to cut through the typical diplomatic paralysis. Then there is Kerry, McCain and all the rest who called for more troops, as if more "occupiers" would solve the problems or hasten the solution.
The people will gladly cooperate with them, they love their new IP and National Guard (I love it that they changed the name) and they will give them all the information they need.
Be Proud of America!!! We Are A Good Nation!!!
Meanwhile the dems are way overboard slandering America and bad mouthing everything that Americans are.
Once again bush judos the sob's with their own momentum. Now fire back with proud-positive-patriotism!!
LOL, so that what happened to his old jock strap, Teraza had it gilded for him!!!
IIRC, after the Jayson Blair affair, the Slimes had to do something...
The following is really hopeful: Politically, at least, its constancy is paying off. Since the transfer I've had candid conversations with four senior officials with responsibility for Iraq. They are more cautiously optimistic than at any time over the past year. One puts the odds of a successful outcome at three to one. Iraq now has a popular government with a tough, capable prime minister. Democratic institutions are emerging, including a culture of compromise. Clerics are now preaching against insurgents. Sistani calls them sinners, and prohibits cooperation.
The point is, there are no simple answers, nor were there ever. Neither Rummy, nor Bush, nor even Powell ever said there would be. It's amazing that if you look at the American occupation of the Philippines post-1898, or at Germany, that we had VERY similar problems, and, with patience, excellent results.
BTW, for what it's worth, Rush Limbaugh exponded on almost this EXACT strategy about four weeks ago, arguing there was something "magical" about that June 30 deadline, and that the key was allowing the IRAQIS to "demand" that we take care of Fallujah or "find" the WMDs, and that once the IRAQIS requested, say, NATO or Arab help, it would be impossible to deny. Well, witness that Jordan and (I think) Kuwait have now said they would send troops to Iraq.
'Scientific' view forecasts a big Bush winPolls may show the presidential race in a dead heat, but for a small band of academics who use scientific formulas to predict elections, President Bush is on his way to a sizable win... Most of these academics are predicting Bush, bolstered by robust economic growth, will win between 53 and 58 percent of the votes cast for him and his Democratic opponent John Kerry... But one glaring error is what the forecasters are perhaps best remembered for: They predicted in 2000 that Democrat Al Gore would win easily, pegging his total at between 53 and 60 percent of the two-party vote... The forecasters chalk up the 2000 error to Gore's campaign, which distanced itself from the Clinton record. All the models assume the candidates will run reasonably competent campaigns, said Thomas Holbrook, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee... Holbrook uses an economic indicator from the University of Michigan's survey of consumers. One question asks whether respondents are better or worse off financially than they were a year before. In May, 45 percent said they were better off. That is lower than the all-time election year high of 54 percent in 2000, Holbrook said, but higher than the 39 percent in 1996 when Clinton was re-elected.
Reuters
July 01, 2004
BTTT
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