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Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that Baghdad residents could count on only "an hour or two a day" of electricity. That's down from an average of five to six hours a day earlier this year.
But that piece of data has not been sent to lawmakers for months because the State Department, which prepares a weekly "status report" for Congress on conditions in Iraq, stopped estimating in May how many hours of electricity Baghdad residents typically receive each day."
The exit amendment of Reid, Pelosi and their ilk is nothing of the kind. It is an open-ended monstrosity that could keep our fighting men in Iraq forever and ever, as noted by this short article by Tina Richards:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18078.htm
Obama has already said that we will need to "take out" an estimated 20 thousand "activist extremists" in Iraq. This number, like all the other numbers, could change with the wind.
The rest of the Democratic war hawks--like Connecticutt's prized Liebermann--are solidly behind the war. The presidential candidates, save for Gravel and Kucinich who have little support, unfortunately, are speaking out of both sides of their mouths...
With some, like Obama and Clinton, this is obvious...Obama has as much as said he will stay in Iraq...Clinton is the "Our Crowd" candidate in New York and has the financial support of another War Pig, Rupert Murdoch, who, with the disgraced felon and fellow media mogul, 'Lord' Conrad Black employed numerous Neo-Con war pigs. George Soros, one of the chief financiers of this faux-opposition party--the Democrats--is all things to all men--as long as their goods end up in his pocket and those of his friends... like those of Kosovo.
That militarists can claim superior military competence is a fiction. Those who see warfare as a glorious stage upon which to display acts of individual heroism and fortitude may win battles but never wars. Their view is clouded by overheated imaginings that conflict with the reality of war as a sequence of brutal crimes, never to be embraced willingly nor entered into lightly. Final victory goes to those who fight only of necessity and whose cool judgment marshals every resource to abridge the conflict.
Sadly, Dumus entrusted the military affairs of the Hegemon to Direptor Temerarius who embraced aggression as the salvation of the faltering empire. His consummate skill in bureaucratic intrigue, not his experience of battle, raised him to the top of the military hierarchy. He conceived it most glorious to fashion an army slight in numbers, agile and armed with artful weapons with which to vanquish, with dash and style, vastly more numerous adversaries. Over a lengthy period he set in train a series of military reforms that resulted in a sleek new army in time for the conquest of Mesopotamia.
While the collapse of Nur ud Din was nearly simultaneous with the initial shock of the Hegemon%u2019s attack, the people of Mesopotamia, inured to privation and violence, could not be awed into submission. Meager in number, the abused troops of the Hegemon were deprived of serviceable equipment and abandoned to drown in a sea of implacable foes.
Posted by FARTKNOCKER2 at 10:45 AM : Jul 27, 2007
Folks remember these lines. This how the right views our troops, their sacrifices, their families' pain and loss. Next time one of these rightwing fanatics mention the military, ask them why THEy are so unpatriotic, why they have no respect for the troops, why they hate america. I spent 2 years having my patriotism questioned when I said we had no reason to invade Iraq. Now we see the true side of the rightwing viewpoints. What they really think about the deaths of our sons, daughters, husbands and wives.
"get over it. Move on. He was killed, that's it... nothing more."
Remember what they really think of our troops.
Further evidence that the "surge" is working!
SIGH....we aid and aabet the Taliban when the Soviets invade Afghanistan and later the Taliban turns on us...then we invade Iraq and someone helps the locals against us. guess we reap what we sow.
"Oh what tangled webs we weave...when first we practice to deceive" and "all birds come home to roost"
http://www.rr.com/flash/index.cfm?rev=10248
Pat Tillman was shot in the forehead, point blank, three times by an M-16, and Bu$h said he was a hero...
That lying sack of shiite...
Bu$h turned fratracide into Pentagon propaganda...
The Bu$h administration and the Pentagoons actually turned Tillman's death into profit and advantage, in an in-your-face kind of way! The same way they lied about 'rescuing' Private Jessica Lynch... In-your-face, don't let truth get in the way of opportunity spin...
Just the way the same cabal planned and executed the 9/11 atrocity to galvanize Americans into blind hatred for Muslums, so the defense industry could pillage the US Treasury for years. History will prove me right. I didn't vote for this bunch, in fact, I knew they were not the crew to trust with America's future. Half of them had been involved with Iran-Contra - drugs for guns. The other half were NeoCon traitors. None were truthful. None had a soul.
I hope true Republicans will wake up to the fact they have been had, shake off the embarassment and save what's left of their country. True patriots can admit they were wrong. Just my opinion. End this futile, disturbing oil war soon.
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 11:37 PM : Jul 26, 2007
The wonder was that she could stand up straight. Talk about a strong back! LOL!