Posted on 10/16/2007 12:31:01 AM PDT by txroadkill
Link only...I think were not allowed to post from Time here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20071015/wl_time/troopsrecurringnightmareiniraq
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
The reason I posted it is just to point out the pure hate of the Administration that drips from the article.
In southern Iraq, where U.S. troops and the remnants of the multinational coalition wage a low-intensity war against militant factions themselves at war with each other,
No bias there, or any mention of terrorist either, I guess Al Qaeda must have left.
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U.S. officials insist the weapons (EFPs) are made or at least designed in Iran but have so far failed to produce a direct link.
Give me a break... maybe the tooth fairy brought them. Translation: we want you to get mad that Bush is getting troops blown up just don't go blaming Iran for it.
Notice no mention in the story about the new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. We are getting them in as fast as we can build them, but to get them in country the fastest is to go through Turkey...well...for now anyway... I guess the soldiers will just have to wait, we need to pass meaningless resolutions about something that happened 100 years ago first, that's way more important.
Let us understand some obvious points. (1) the Democrats who control Congress side against us (the United States of America) and with its terrorist enemies; (2) the the Islamic Republic of Iran presently leads the enemy more than any other entity; and (3) the Turks are our ally. So how can the Congress best empower the leading enemy of the United States? If the Congress pisses off the Turks, then we lose a major route for getting supplies into Iraq.
Our remaining options: (1) go over or through the Syrian Arab Republic, a terrorist regime much loved in the Congress but an enemy of the United States; (2) attempt to go through Jordan and quite probably Israel too; (3) convince our alleged friends the Saudis, really severely compromised at best, to allow us to drive through their country from the Red Sea; or (4) rely more intensively on the Persian Gulf route. The first three options probably will prove impolitic--and the first and third almost certainly already are, and the second inadequate or very difficult at best.
This lack of options puts our prime or exclusive shipping route at very severe danger from the Islamic Republic of Iran and their repeated threats to seal off the Straits of Hormuz. Given their military prowess and our political considerations, this brilliant move from the House of Representatives sets up an ideal situation for the traitors within our country to conspire with the Islamic Republic of Iran to impede or attack our shipping to and from Iraq. Any confrontation between our military and theirs will not end happily since the enemy takeover of the Congress. They will leave our military as overstretched, weak, deeply underfunded, poorly armed, ill-supported, and desperate as possible on the eve of any such confrontation.
We can win, but how will the Congress react? They would rather starve our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines to death and deprive them of adequate ammunition than see our guys defeat the enemy. And it's not that difficult for the enemy to defeat us when they know exactly how many rounds of ammunition we have, when our supply lines can deliver no supplies ever. And we are heading there every day. Every bullet counts.
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