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Petraeus Takes Control Of American Forces In Iraq, Says Mission Is "Doable"
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- Cheney was obviously more intelligent in 1992 than he was a decade later. Hell, he even forgot his own advice!
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- Choke this down lars, if you can:
In 1992, the United States Secretary of Defense during the war, *** Cheney, made the same point:
"I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home.
And the final point that I think needs to be made is this question of casualties. I don't think you could have done all of that without significant additional U.S. casualties, and while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the (1991) conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war.
And the question in my mind is, how many additional American casualties is Saddam (Hussein) worth? And the answer is, NOT THAT DAMNED MANY. So, I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the President made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq." - Reply to this comment
- the resumption of hostilities was inevitable since iraq broke the ceasefire agreement.....
lars008, I know you are a fascist and thus think you are superior to all living beings but you have to get a grip here. The "Ceasefire Agreement" or the LEGAL reason for going to war was based on WMD's. Saddam said he would not develope those Weapons, he did NOT. Saddam said he would allow inspectors in the Country, Sir Lies-A-Lot REMOVED them. The AGREEMENT was NOT with the UNITED STATES you pathetic Religious NUTCASE, it was with the UN. That was the reason for the POWELL presentation to the UN. IT and the ACTIONS of Sir Lies-A-Lot were all LIES Sparky!! ALL OF THEM!! Now I know all you in the Hood and Sheet Crowd want to mount up and ride again so bad you can taste it but COME ON!! - Reply to this comment
- Oop's now you've gone and done it! Confused a Fascist in the middle of building up a good case of hatred for a fellow American with fact. That, in some cases, will result in a Burning Cross in your yard!
Posted by skyk at 08:59 AM : Feb 11, 2007
Watch this fool lars continuously post that Islam is a violation of international law and repeatedly refuse to cite the non-existant law to which he refers....... - Reply to this comment
- the war is legal...........
Posted by lars008 at 08:42 AM : Feb 11, 2007
The war is as legal as the practice of Islam is illegal, lars.
Posted by formrusmcsgt at 08:52 AM : Feb 11, 2007
lars008, I'd suggest you log off and come back at a time when this American isn't on. He not only has your number he's flat making you look like what you are...an IDIOT! - Reply to this comment
- islam is a violation of international law
Posted by lars008 at 08:57 AM : Feb 11, 2007
Which international law, lars? - Reply to this comment
- True, but they had to bid to get their contracts prior to 2002, lars. Not the case once their former CEO moved to Washington.......
Posted by formrusmcsgt at 08:55 AM : Feb 11, 2007
Oop's now you've gone and done it! Confused a Fascist in the middle of building up a good case of hatred for a fellow American with fact. That, in some cases, will result in a Burning Cross in your yard! - Reply to this comment
- I see I spoke too soon. I should have known better.
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- this is the real threat to humanity.....
http://stopislam.cjb.net/ - Reply to this comment
- Kudos lars,
You actually have managed to post something other than:
KILL ALL THE MUSLIMS
KILL ALL THE MUSLIMS
KILL ALL THE MUSLIMS
KILL ALL THE MUSLIMS - Reply to this comment
- the war is legal haji...........
the resumption of hostilities was inevitable since iraq broke the ceasefire agreement.....
these islamic sanctioned pracitices are not legal haji..... but you knew that already....
islam is a violation of international law
islam practices slavery on non muslims
islam practices aparthied on non muslims
islam practices rape on non muslims
islam practices rape on babies and animals
islam practices genocide on non muslims
all are violations of international law and are crimes against humanity - Reply to this comment
- Halliburton was a favorite contractor of the Clinton Pentagon.
Posted by lars008 at 08:50 AM : Feb 11, 2007
True, but they had to bid to get their contracts prior to 2002, lars. Not the case once their former CEO moved to Washington....... - Reply to this comment
- That work received favorable notices throughout the Clinton administration. For example, Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review mentioned Halliburton's performance in its Report on Reinventing the Department of Defense, issued in September 1996. In a section titled "Outsourcing of Logistics Allows Combat Troops to Stick to Basics," Gore's reinventing-government team favorably mentioned LOGCAP, the cost-plus-award system, and Brown & Root, which the report said provided "basic life support services %u2014 food, water, sanitation, shelter, and laundry; and the full realm of logistics services %u2014 transportation, electrical, hazardous materials collection and disposal, fuel delivery, airfield and seaport operations, and road maintenance."
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york070903.asp - Reply to this comment
- In 1997, when LOGCAP was again put up for bid, Halliburton/Brown & Root lost the competition to another contractor, Dyncorp. But the Clinton Defense Department, rather than switch from Halliburton to Dyncorp, elected to award a separate, sole-source contract to Halliburton/Brown & Root to continue its work in the Balkans. According to a later GAO study, the Army made the choice because 1) Brown & Root had already acquired extensive knowledge of how to work in the area; 2) the company "had demonstrated the ability to support the operation"; and 3) changing contractors would have been costly. The Army's sole-source Bosnia contract with Brown & Root lasted until 1999. At that time, the Clinton Defense Department conducted full-scale competitive bidding for a new contract. The winner was . . . Halliburton/Brown & Root. The company continued its work in Bosnia uninterrupted.
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- the war is legal...........
Posted by lars008 at 08:42 AM : Feb 11, 2007
The war is as legal as the practice of Islam is illegal, lars. - Reply to this comment
- mcdazz
Halliburton was a favorite contractor of the Clinton Pentagon.
The first LOGCAP was awarded in 1992, as the first Bush administration (including then-Secretary of Defense Cheney) was leaving office. Four companies competed, and the winner was Brown & Root, as it was known at the time (Halliburton changed the name to Kellogg Brown & Root after an acquisition in 1998). The multi-year contract was in effect during much of the Clinton administration. During those years, Brown & Root did extensive work for the Army under the LOGCAP contract in Haiti, Somalia, and Bosnia; contract workers built base camps and provided troops with electrical power, food, and other necessities. - Reply to this comment
- the war is legal...........
the resumption of hostilities was inevitable since iraq broke the ceasefire agreement.....
yes there is, afghanistan..... - Reply to this comment
- It's a "LOST" Cause! Those people have no regard for human life-Theirs or anybody elses. Get out now and quit putting money into some thing that Bush started and we can't finish.
Bush said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and no evidence of such was ever proven.He {Bush}started this conflict because Saddam Husein humiliated his daddy when he was the President.
Impeach Bush Now or give him and Cheney and Mcain a rifle and send them to Iraq and bring our troops home. - Reply to this comment
- In other words, "we caused the chaos in your country, but it's your fault order can't be restored"......
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- I must admit that I always assumed that Bush/Cheney/Rice would be laying the blame for the failure of this boondoggle at their successor's feet. But I perceive that here lies an expression of how the end game will play out.
The administration is beginning to lay the blame groundwork for this boondoggle at the Iraqi's feet.
As the administration never should have toppled the dictator who held this quagmire together, they'll now blame the Iraqi's for it being a quagmire after they removed the stabilizing force, Hussein.
Just watch. They'll try to avoid having their policy judged as being moronic in the first place by blaming the Iraqis for the chaos that the administration itself fostered with their boondoggle. - Reply to this comment
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