Major Concession

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A recent GAO report only repeated what the military must have known long ago. We will not have enough troops, with rotation, to maintain the occupation of Iraq beyond next March. The Joint Cheifs have been saying this for some time (without giving a date). UN members have long known this and have left the US to stew in its own juices. They were right. This president assumed the US would be welcome. Guess what. It is now so bad everywhere in Iraq that even the press reports combined with all these other inputs finally got the attention of George Jr.

Ron Nordland reporting for PBS said he saw the change occur over a three week period. He watched US troops become part of a problem that was only getting worse over the past three months. And since those troops did not even speak the language, they did not understand why things kept getting worse. Did not understand that they were only making things worse and encouraging widespread violence. Currently, every US troop that returns from Iraq will now be examined carefully by a psychiatrist on return because the situation over there has become that stressful.

A major concession to the UN, a special olive branch handed to the French, some sort of special consideration to Putin of Russia, etc are all in process. Even right wing Republican extremists are conceding that we need the UN and that an active UN is in America's interest. This is a complete reversal of right wing rhetoric - as you Rush Limbaugh listeners must acknowledge.

We are losing ten seriously wounded troops every day. We have lost more since this president declared the war over compared to what were lost during the entire original war. We have lost more troops than in the previous Gulf war because the administration is more interested in their agenda than in current realities.

We have not even covered the costs. NASA with ISS, space shuttles, and deep space exploration, does it on a budget of $13 billion. This war, without including capital expenditures and not including any rebuilding, will cost $400+ billion this year and $500 billion next year. Even these figures are still considered mythical by many Democratic and Republican Congressmen.

The EPA superfund is only $50million. Why is Iraq more important? Too late to ask. A lying president got us into the quagmire. The American standard of living must suffer as a result. America unemployed has increased every year now for past three Labor Days - even with record deficients to stimulate the economy. But since rhetoric says that should not happen, then clearly it is not. Denial with propaganda so that you too will deny.

We are spending somewhere around $25,000 every year to liberate Iraqis who universally want one thing - for Americans to leave. Some work for this objective by cooperating. Some by violence. But the bottom line is that we attacked a nation that had no weapons of mass destruction, we lied, and forced a liberation on Iraq that did not want it.

What is worse is how we have screwed up the post war recovery - with Rumsfeld openly declaring no violence in a country that was tearing itself apart. Our leaders refused to beleive all this would happen and refused to acknoledge that it was happening. All this violence is contrary to their agenda - realities be damned.

Saddam could get water and elecricity running in one month. But since this administration is so bull headed about not sending more troops, we have troops not trained to accomplish tasks that are required - even to get the utilities working.

Don't forget about Afghanistan. Same problem. We still have not even provided basic services that the Taliban had no problem providing. In many places, basic water systems still don't work. These are the ticking time bombs that create VietNam scenarios. These are the ticking time bombs that this administration has finally conceded.

Bottom line. The military needed many more troops. They said it would take 200,000 for up to five years. Rumsfled and company said that was rediculous. Look who was correct. As a result, that 200,000 number is too small. But this mental midget presidency is finally conceding to what everyone else knew long ago. Even the GAO could see what an MBA continued to deny - until today. Major concessions today by this administration.