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U.S. to send 20,000 additional troops to stabilize Iraq
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| 25 May 03
Posted on 05/25/2003 11:34:04 AM PDT by SLB
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Any bets that Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki and the fired Secretary of the Army Tom White are snickering and saying "Told you so?"
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posted on
05/25/2003 11:34:04 AM PDT
by
SLB
To: Fred Mertz; Wally Cleaver; sauropod; Jeff Head
Comments?
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posted on
05/25/2003 11:34:56 AM PDT
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SLB
To: SLB
We're doing now what we should have done from the beginning. We're approaching 200,000 troops, which I believe is what Shinseki said we'd need to stabilize the country. Too bad his thoughts were dismissed. We could have avoided a lot of problems. But, better late than never, I guess.
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posted on
05/25/2003 11:46:59 AM PDT
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saquin
To: SLB
As long as "Palestinians", Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordon, Lebbanon, Iran, Sudan,Somalia,Yemin,Algeria,Lybia,
France, Germany, Russia, China, Canada, Cuba, et al ...are still engaged in terrorism, or the financing, sheltering,harboring, training, equiping, and offering any kind of support
This war will never end...and Iraq will have a steady supply of Jiihadis..
They...like we...need to seal the borders...
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posted on
05/25/2003 11:56:13 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: SLB
Thanks for the heads up. Rummy won't admit to being wrong even if he is. Plus-up of the Brits 20K more is kind of buried in this story.
To: Onyxx
bump for later
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posted on
05/25/2003 12:06:05 PM PDT
by
Unknown Freeper
(Remember the Funk Brothers: http://www.standingintheshadowsofmotown.com/soundtrack.htm)
To: SLB
Prelude to invasion of Iran?
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posted on
05/25/2003 4:00:47 PM PDT
by
Momaw Nadon
(The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open.)
To: SLB
This is not a "new commitment." though the anti-Bush press is trying to spin it that way. The 1st was publicly committed back in January, it's just that they're finally arriving now.
To: cookcounty
this is true.
still, I saw a report on Fox today about the general effort to stabilize the country. In Baghdad, the reporter said the electricity is still only on for two hours per day. Why? Were the generating plants destroyed? No followup on the report as to why it is taking so long to restore power, is it lack of refined diesel to run the generators?
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posted on
05/25/2003 4:59:24 PM PDT
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oceanview
To: oceanview
In Baghdad, the reporter said the electricity is still only on for two hours per day. On the weekend, the Australian foreign minister was visiting Baghdad, and he went everywhere escorted by an absolute regiment of armed forces, because security is so bad. There was an electricity station in the background, and someone pointed it out and said that it is operating at only 20% capacity.
Also, in another report, I read that the water mains in Nasiriyeh had finally been restored, but then had been "looted" within a few days, and so now wrecked again. Reading this, I wondered if some of the "looting" might not be a deliberate sabotage by guerilla forces.
To: SLB
They also might need greater troop numbers, because of the terrible weather and unhealthy conditions in southern Iraq.
To: Momaw Nadon
Prelude to invasion of Iran? God I hope not. We can't even get one country settled, the last thing we need is another.
To: BlackVeil
they had better move fast to get water and electricity going faster then they have been. does it take a genius to post guards at something as vital as a water plant? I don't mean to sound like Bob Graham, but we have to do better before things really do become a problem over there.
To: saquin
Close but no cigar. Shinseki said "several hundred thousand" not 200,000.
To: BlackVeil
how the hell do you loot a water main?
To: csmusaret
Close but no cigar. Shinseki said "several hundred thousand" not 200,000. Two can be interpreted as 'several. Besides, that idiot Richard Pearle said it could be done with less that 30,000. Who was closer?
To: ContentiousObjector
you steal the pumping equipment, or just vandalize the pipes.
To: ContentiousObjector
how the hell do you loot a water main? That is exactly what I was asking myself. I suppose that there might be deisel generators, which could be taken away and sold. But most of the equipment, surely, is not of any use elsewhere. Which is why one wonders if someone isn't striking out at any public property to hand, as a gesture of resentment. The water mains at Nasireyeh had been restored by an international charity, not the new govt in Iraq. They need to get control.
To: Non-Sequitur
2 is never several. Shinseki was wrong and , if you are correct so was Pearle. Is there a point here other than 2 people were very wrong?
To: Fred Mertz
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