Comments on: U.S. Defense Secretary Gates Visits Basra

Also Friday, Raid Arresting Aide Of Iraqi Militia Leader Is Reported

[exusmcsgt]

No amount of troops will matter. You can't win someone else's civil war.

Posted by Rafterman1 at 06:02 PM

Just look at the former Yugoslavia. It's now a collection of secular/ethnic states as will be Iraq.

[rafterman1]

No amount of troops will matter. You can't win someone else's civil war.

Unfortunately, it's going to take possibly thousands more Amercian lives before the diehard Bush koolaid drinkers realize it.

[grazinggoat]

bluestardad,
U right. The Iraqi soldiers took the premature-babies from their incubators and put them on the cold floor to die. Just wondering how could that be true; Kuwaity temperature at that time should be around 80 some degrees.

And U're right; she was the daughter of the then Kuwaity ambassador in USA.

What a big lie! like many others going on then and now. Unforgettable.

[jimfinster]

Too little, too late.

[Syndicate]

They didn't give them weapons before because they couldn't keep track of anything. half the stuff we gave them ended up with the insurgents. There were several succesful attempts by insurgents to infiltrate the security services. This detail was in another version of this story I read earlier.

[lewyoowy]

Maliki says his soliders need heavy weapons to make Iraq secure.....you bet!!

The Shiites will need those weapons to eradicate all Sunnis after we are gone!! Maybe while we are still there! Maybe even with our help!

So in order to maintain George Bush's legacy we will participate in genocide!

[exusmcsgt]

ObservantX-

Thank you. However, most independent military experts place the number of additional troops needed to stabilize Iraq at about 8 times your suggested figure, in addition to the troops already there now.

[observantx]

exusmsgt:

You have nailed it dead on.

Iran has wanted territory in Iraq for centuries and now they will have it because the greedy neocons got Clueless Leader to lie and spin and give the go ahead for the invasion. As much as I hate to say it, at this point we would throw 80,000 troops or more in order to even have a slim chance of changing the outcome.

[exusmcsgt]

Even some Repubs acknowledge in public that "the emperor has no clothes".

Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, released a statement last night in regards to the bi-partisan resolution opposing Bubba Dubya's escalation saying "Its focus rightly hinges on a diplomatic and political solution as a military solution is no longer feasible in Iraq."

[exusmcsgt]

Tuckerndfw-

I see two political drivers for this escalation:

1. Bubba Dubya is desperately attempting to avoind the legacy of an utter moron.

2. The NeoCons realize that they played right into Iran's hands by taking out Hussein and allowing Iran to extend their sphere of influence into SE Iraq - something they could not accomplish on their own when Hussein held the reigns of power. The NeoCons are desperately attempting to avoid that eventuality.

They will fail on both counts regardless of how many warriors or how much treasure is wasted in the attempt. Iraq will degenerate into secular states giving Iran exactly what it wanted and history will label Bubba as a total buffoon for fragmenting Iraq and giving Iran it's coveted prize.