Scott Ritter ....is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated.
Funny how a couple hits on DELETE makes the story better!BTW, since this "news" came from Ritter, I *know* it's bull$hit.
V for Victory
Posted on 03/26/2003 4:30:03 PM PST by dmcg_98
"US will lose war", says former UN inspector
March 26 2003 at 06:42PM
Lisbon - The United States does not have the military means to take over Baghdad and will lose the war against Iraq, former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter said.
"The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated. It is a war we can not win," he told private radio TSF in an interview broadcast here Tuesday evening.
"We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat of the United States in this war is inevitable," he said.
"Every time we confront Iraqi troops we may win some tactical battles, as we did for ten years in Vietnam but we will not be able to win this war, which in my opinion is already lost," Ritter added.
'It is a war we can not win' Stiffening Iraqi resistance as US-led forces close in on Baghdad have prompted questions about the strategy to use precision air power and a smaller, fast moving ground force to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Some military analysts have said there are not enough allied troops in Iraq to take control of Baghdad, where Saddam Hussein's elite troops are said to be concentrated, and that the planning of the war was overly optimistic.
But British Prime Minister Tony Blair told parliament Wednesday the United States and Britain believe they have "sufficient forces" in Iraq and London was not planning to send reinforcements to the country at this stage.
A combination of bad weather and heavy fighting in central Iraq has slowed the advance of coalition troops marching on Baghdad.
Ritter resigned in August 1998 after accusing both Washington and the United Nations of not doing enough to support the weapons inspectors.
Since leaving the UN weapons inspectors team he has become an outspoken critic of US policies towards Iraq. - Sapa-AFP
Cap'n, you get my vote more the most succint and hillarious comment of the day.
BTW Thanks for the laugh.
im·per·a·tive  ( P ) Pronunciation Key ( m-p r  -tv)adj.
n.
[Middle English imperatif, relating to the imperative mood, from Old French, from Late Latin imper  t vus, from Latin impertus, past participle of imperre, to command. See emperor.] im·per a·tive·ly adv.im·per a·tive·ness n. |
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\Im*per"a*tive\, a. [L. imperativus, fr. imperare to command; pref. im- in + parare to make ready, prepare: cf. F. imp['e]ratif. See Perade, and cf. Empire.] 1. Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.
The suit of kings are imperative. --Bp. Hall.
2. Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.
3. (Gram.) Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.
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\Im*per"a*tive\, n. (Gram.) The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.
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adj 1: requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative" [ant: beseeching] 2: (grammar) relating to verbs in the imperative mood n 1: a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior [syn: imperative mood, jussive mood] 2: some duty that is essential and urgent
The pedophile thing is probably just the tip of a very incriminating iceberg. But, this man has gone too far, in my estimation. His only real hope would be to stay out of the limelight, and hope we all forget his insane, treasonous, anti-american actions and pronouncements. But the idiot keeps running his big fool mouth. If he continues, he will cross that line... and LOSE his country. He will deserve lifetime exile, in the squalid arab despotism of his choice, never to return to the United States. I don't think anything is quite worth that.
....but the Brits, Scots, Aussies, Poles, et al. will win it for the US! : )
2. Just for the sake of argument, I accept your premises.
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| o·rig·i·nal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-rj-nl) adj.
n.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin or ginlis, from org , orgin-, source. See origin.] |
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\O*rig"i*nal\, n. [Cf. F. original.] 1. Origin; commencement; source.
It hath it original from much grief. --Shak.
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. --Addison.
2. That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.
The Scriptures may be now read in their own original. --Milton.
3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.]
Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. --C. G. Leland.
4. A person of marked eccentricity. [Colloq.]
5. (Zo["o]l. & Bot.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
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\O*rig"i*nal\, a. [F. original, L. originalis.] 1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. --Milton.
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adj 1: preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed; "the original inhabitants of the Americas"; "the book still has its original binding"; "restored the house to its original condition"; "the original performance of the opera"; "the original cast"; "retracted his original statement" 2: (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources" 3: being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind" [ant: unoriginal] 4: not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French" n 1: an original (audio recording) from which copies can be made [syn: master, master copy] 2: an original model on which something is patterned [syn: archetype, pilot]
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ROTFLMBO!!!! Maybe I'm just over tired, but that just struck me really funny.
Saddam Hussein is dead. His sons are dead. Chemical Ali is dead. Thousands of soldiers from the Medina, Nebekenezer and the Free Mumia divisions are dead. The oil wells, pipelines and terminals are secure. The Patriot missles work. The Iraqis cannot kill our personnel without deception, ambush and POW execution. The American people understand the enormity of the stakes. We will find Weapons of Mass Destruction, we will be greeted by a joyful Iraqi liberated people, we will act humanely yet decisively in War and in the return of Iraqi land and resource to the Iraqi people. That's what we do.
What exists today, IMO, is a cabal of the most senior Baath Party functionaries, their trusted and murderous SS/Gestapo like security and police detail, a defense strategy designed to maximize the death of Iraqi civilians through alleged coalition murder, and most importantly, a co-ordinated propaganda machine abetted by Al Jazeera, Reuters, free lance international journalists and media to invent, stage, amplify and present graphic imagery of innocent civilian carnage, bogus staging of heroic Iraqi citizen resolve and powerful counterattack, and a 24X7 presentation of a moribund Coalition military campaign and a universal World opposition to its existence.
I may even construct a LONGER and more clumsy sentence than the one above, just because I'm so jazzed to be an American right now.
These Baghdad perverts want a diplomatic out. They think Bush will wilt under an increasing domestic unease from 24X7 bombardment of images of Iraqi civilian casualties and a seeming military gridlock.
I can very well see Jaques Chirac and Kofi Annan on the phone with Aziz and that VP: "Don't panic. Don't launch the happy gas. Work the plan, string this out. Create the landscape of innocent death and destruction. Give us a moral high ground to exploit in our media and international forums. Keep a stranglehold on your citizens. Create some time for the martyr sons of jihad to operate against American and British targets. We need time, if we're going to get a U.N. outcome that saves all our asses."
Bush won't play that game. We've got guys on the ground who WILL go house to house after Saddam's thugs if they hide among the innocents. The Brits are best in the world in close urban military tactics and training - they've heard of a town named Belfast. The Kurds will steamroll Tikrid from the North. The people of Basra, Mosul, Kirkuk and Najaf will be fed, clothed, protected and given medical care. The terrorist thugs will be rooted out and killed, one by one. There is no central opposition, this is a last ditch desparation ploy by the Saddam Gangsta crew to delay for a French or U.N. rescue. Wrongo. They executed our young soldiers, shot them in the head point blank for the entertainment of their fans in shitholes around the Arab world.
This thing has an ending, and it guarantees that Saddam and his butchers are dead, and that Iraqis are delivered from a living hell, and that the civilized world is significantly safer and our path to scumbag Islamist terrorists and their handlers is just that much clearer.
We have Bush. We have Blair. We have America, the Brits and the righteous destiny. We have ... belly girl.
Yeah, its in the wrong head.
That occurred to me too. He's acting like that former Marine who renounced his citizinship to get together a bunch of socialists/communists to travel to Baghdad and 'volunteer' as human shields...all on Saddam's dime, of course. I can never remember that guy's name.
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