ttom500: David, how could we get 600,000 documents from inside Iraq government prior to the war? We could not, right?
So ask yourself this one. Why would a number of middle level DoD types, that are on career tracks. With little gain, because even if they come out with a report kissing GWB tush, they are still on the same pay grade tomorrow, right? Come out with a report on the 600,000
documents that is anything less than to the best of their ability and is honest?
Is the standard right wing. No doubt about. But this does not discredit to having solid articles with solid info.
Tom, let me think.... Would the DoD lie to the American public for political reasons? Hmmmm...OF course they would. It doesn't take a Rhodes Scholar to break that down. The firing of seven US attorneys... Scooter Libby and company outing a CIA agent... Lying to the United Nations about sketchy Intel about Weapons of Mass Destruction... George Bush has stated "if you are not for us, then you must be against us." You betcha' these DoD folks would lie to keep their jobs.
I take 'The Weekly Standard' articles with a grain of salt. The left has their own fruitcakes spewing gibberish much like Hayes that I wholeheartedly disagree with...
Is the standard right wing. No doubt about. But this does not discredit to having solid articles with solid info.
Ok, if you say so.
David, on Pakistan and Afghanistan. I agree there is a fight there.
The question is do we send our troops into it or proxy it with Afghan and Pakistani? Just last week Paksitan came to the conclusion that
the Taliban had broken the truce with them. Began major operations
in the Northwest Tribal region. A principle reason that the Russians lost....even though they were placing 500,000+ troops there...is they never got to the Northwest Tribal region.
I think Bhutto would have been a great leader for the Pakistanis. It is sickens me that Mushareff did very little for the United States during the height of the Afghan conflict. His military should have covered the borders and captured those bastards.
You know as well myself. The Russians took high casualities in Afghanistan for 10 years. Not like what are taking in Iraq....less than a 1000 a year, David. We are talking closer to 10,000 per year. They lost a close to 100,000 there.....if my memory is correct it was 96,000. That is alot of people. We put the same number into Afghanistan....that 500,000 figure.....to win...we also put 500,000 into harms way.
But fighting this with proxies.....keeps alot of American troops out of harms way....specially if the proxies can go to places that you cannot.
Makes alot of sense to me.
You are correct the Russians took high casualties. One of the main reasons they lost so many was the United States helped aid the Mujahadeen by sending weapons to Osama Bin Laden and his forces. Another bungled operation that would come back to haunt the CIA and the United States.
One A-bomb from the Untied State's stockpile would calm that region.
On the economy. This one that the Dem and Rep need to share blame on. jmo GWB was in the White House, but the Dem had control of the Congress. Right now with a election year...they pointing fingers at each other like there is no tomorrow. They don't have enough fingers to point in fact....that is why guys like Carvel, Morris and yes Rove...make big bucks on TV kicking out the spin de dour of the day.
Wait, wait, wait... I love how you slipped in "Dems had control of the Congress". Actually the Republicans held the majority for the first four years of GW's term. And you know as well as I know if the Dems had the votes and a clear majority a lot of what they would have said would've came to fruition.
But, I do agree both sides have done a terrible job.
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