Posted on 01/06/2007 3:28:53 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 — President Bush’s new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of forces that could add as many as 20,000 American combat troops to Baghdad, supplemented with a jobs program costing as much as $1 billion intended to employ Iraqis in projects including painting schools and cleaning streets, according to American officials who are piecing together the last parts of the initiative.
The American officials said that Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, formally agreed in a long teleconference on Thursday with Mr. Bush to match the American troop increase, ...
Nonetheless, even in outlining the plan, some American officials acknowledged deep skepticism about whether the new Iraq plan could succeed.
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The call for an increase in troops would also put Mr. Bush in direct confrontation with the leaders of the new Democratic Congress, who said in a letter to the president on Friday that the United States should move instead toward a phased withdrawal of American troops, to begin in the next four months.
Mr. Bush is expected to make the plan public in coming days, probably in a speech to the country on Wednesday that will cast the initiative as a joint effort by the United States and Iraq to reclaim control of Baghdad neighborhoods racked by sectarian violence. Officials said Mr. Bush was likely to be vague on the question of how long the additional American forces would remain on the streets of Baghdad. But they said American planners intended for the push to last for less than a year.
A crucial element of the plan would include more than doubling the State Department’s reconstruction efforts throughout the country, an initiative intended by the administration to signal that the new strategy would emphasize rebuilding as much fighting.
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Answer me this riddler....WHERE THE HELL DOES ALL THIS MONEY COME FROM???
Pentagon's plan: More U.S. troops in Iraq (and killing Sadr too) ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752713/posts
Posted by jmc1969
On News/Activism ^ 12/13/2006 12:12:43 AM PST · 45 replies · 1,270+ views
LA Times ^ | December 12 2006 | Julian E. Barnes
Boosting presence and aid, and an anti-Sadr offensive, carry risks but offer the best path to victory, military officials say. As President Bush weighs new policy options for Iraq, strong support has coalesced in the Pentagon behind a military plan to "double down" in the country with a substantial buildup in American troops, an increase in industrial aid and a major combat offensive against Muqtada Sadr, the radical Shiite leader impeding development of the Iraqi government. The Joint Chiefs of Staff will present their assessment and recommendations to Bush at the Pentagon today. Military officials, including some advising the chiefs,...
Pentagon's plan: More U.S. troops in Iraq ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752937/posts
Posted by jveritas
On News/Activism ^ 12/13/2006 10:32:19 AM PST · 12 replies · 367+ views
LA Times ^ | December 13 2006 | Julian E. Barnes
Pentagon's plan: More U.S. troops in Iraq Boosting presence and aid, and an anti-Sadr offensive, carry risks but offer the best path to victory, military officials say. WASHINGTON — As President Bush weighs new policy options for Iraq, strong support has coalesced in the Pentagon behind a military plan to "double down" in the country with a substantial buildup in American troops, an increase in industrial aid and a major combat offensive against Muqtada Sadr, the radical Shiite leader impeding development of the Iraqi government. The Joint Chiefs of Staff will present their assessment and recommendations to Bush at the...
When we claim not to have the resources to help our fellow citizens and are able to do this for a foreign country.......my fellow citizens have every right to bitch and moan......especially those trapped in poverty.
Pave under.
I guess the joke is on US..............
It occurs to me that we could cut the labor costs and help ourselves in the process. Just have immigration round up a quarter million or so illegal aliens, fly them to Jordan, and tell them there are jobs in Iraq. Two birds, one stone.
WHERE THE HELL DOES ALL THIS MONEY COME FROM???
From check kiting operations between the Federal Reserve and the Treasury. Also called Open Market Operations.
Yeah, how does that work exactly? Never mind, you don't have a clue.
I'm finished tutoring you on Economics. It's beyond your feeble brain's capacity.
A tutor ignorant of arbitrage, deflation and reserve requirements. Not much of a tutor, are you?
Yes, to a student like you, who is ignorant of life itself.
So how does check kiting operations between the Federal Reserve and the Treasury earn the government money? And how much money do they earn every year, oh wise one?
Your kids and grandkids. They're going to be filthy rich, so they will be able to afford it...
I don't think we're going to do that, and without that we are wasting our time.
They don't monetize the debt. That's another term you don't understand.
Otherwise they would have to dump their junk paper onto the market and rely on foreign central banks to gobble it up.
They do and they do.
I know I said I wouldn't tutor you anymore
To tutor me, you'd have to know more than me. All you've shown is that you know nothing.
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