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Originally posted by Griff
tw nailed it exactly... until he got to his conclusion. The addition of more troops does little to protect soft infrastructure targets. We can't assign a trooper to every person in Iraq.
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We don't need more guards. We have the wrong people there. Last group we should have in country are two heavy armour divisions. They are not trained. They don't have the right equipment. But right wing rhetoric says they have what they need - they just don't know it yet.
How bad was the administration's plan to end this war? What plan? Why could Saddam restore electricity and other civil services in a month? We can't even restore electricity four months later - and now make silly excuses. What does armour know about infrastructure? Nothing. This administration had no exit strategy nor even a plan how to restore the country. Classic MBA management technique.
But it gets worse. From Washington comes a silly mandate that all Baath party members are to be banned from working. Even Patton confronted that silliness when he was told not to use Nazis. You wanted a job? Then you had sign silly papers and be a Nazi or Baath party member. Do we want the country back in order? Yes. Then Baath party members need be hired. But not according to George Jr and his man Bremer. They are evil. They signed those papers!
Again the NY Times article on how the 101st is getting problems solved. They let Baath party members start teaching again - because all teachers had to be Baath party members regardless of their political mindset.
Same stupidity about disbanning the Iraqi army. No civil authority because those who could have helped restore order were banned. Political rhetoric instead of the intelligence of pragmatism - classic right wing thinking. We created the anarchy by creating a power vacuum. No plans to set up a civilian government. No one to maintain order. No one who knew how to even restore electricity. Then suddenly emergeny contracts with unlimited money to Halliburton et al to come fix the poblems. Then a shortage of US troops AND without proper equipment or translators. What a mess directly traceable to the MBA in the White House.
We don't need more guards. We needed more of everything else including intelligent leaders AND no more rhetoric from Washington.
The NY Times article is quite revealing about why the rest of Iraq is going chaotic. UT need not read it since it will dispute his preconceived notions - just another article from an anti-American newspaper:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/in...al/04NORT.html
Don't forget what George Jr told us. This Iraq war would be paid for by Iraqi oil. So where is that $1billion in oil revenue. And where is the other $499 billion per year coming from? George Jr caught in another lie. The right wing will again forgive him for lying. That is the Christian way.