[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The press is ignoring the military leaders, the administration and the troops - the big picture on the ground in Iraq.

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8 Secretary Rumsfeld Town Hall Meeting at Lackland Air Force Base - DoD | 8/25/03 | SOD Rumsfeld

Q: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, I'm Major Dawn Stay (sp) from Wilford Hall Medical Center. Circumstances are necessitating an expanded role of coalition forces in the Middle East and throughout the globe. What is the likelihood that U.S. military troops would be fighting under the orders of the U.N. or other countries' commanders?

Rumsfeld: The -- I'd say two things. One, we do need coalition forces, and the Department of State and the Department of Defense, John Abizaid, the combatant commanders, and others, the Joint Staff, have been talking to something in excess of 60, 70 countries, about bringing assistance in. I think the number currently is somewhere around 40 countries are participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom in one way or another. We do need international support and assistance. It's a big help. Full stop.

Second question, what is the likelihood of our forces serving under a blue-hatted United Nations leadership? And I think that's not going to happen. (Applause.)

That is not to say that there are not important places and roles that could be played by United Nations forces. For example, the United Nations has agreed to come in and replace the Eastern African countries, ECOWAS, in Liberia, but it's going to take them several months to get ready to do that. And they may very well come in and replace the ECOWAS forces in Liberia, and that would be a useful thing, to try to take a situation that has been stabilized, go in and then create an environment that's hospitable to the humanitarian assistance workers so that they can continue to provide some help to the Liberians.

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"The press has become the greatest power within the western countries,
more powerful than the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary.

One would then ask: By what law has it been elected and
to whom is it responsible?"  ~  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

"The time is long overdue to stop taking the media,

 as well as the U.N., so seriously." - Thomas Sowell

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8 "THERE WILL BE NO RETREAT" ~ and other quotes from experts the PRESS ignored last week.

8 Unapologetically Pro-Coalition News Links and Articles

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

As of this week, there were 136,000 U.S. troops and 22,000 troops from 28 countries in Iraq. That's right. Twenty-eight. Not two. Not three. Not ten. Dutch and Italian forces are currently assisting at Tallil - where Chromey is stationed - and are taking on more responsibilities. Why then the talk of needing an Official UN Permission Slip?

Don't mess with 'Mrs. Chromedome'.

If you want on or off my pro-Coalition/anti-wanker ping list, just ping.

[Molly Pitcher]

Thank YOU!!

[SAMWolf]

Good rant. Thanks for the ping Ragtime cowgirl.

The Press wants Iraq to be a "guagmire", "another Vietnam", so they write their stories to fit the end result they want and any facts be damned.

[boxerblues]

Woohoo!! nothing like telling it like it is

[Grampa Dave]

Rummy said, "What is the likelihood of our forces serving under a blue-hatted United Nations leadership? And I think that's not going to happen. (Applause.)"


This has to drive the third world lefties into even a deeper mental depression. Also, those far right pyschos who say there is no difference between the rats and Republicans are again shown to be the BS artists they are.