Press Conference: “As Soon as Possible” Means Not Very Soon at All
Press Conference: “As Soon as Possible” Means Not Very Soon at All
President Bush on when troops will come home from Iraq:
As soon as possible. And as soon as possible depends upon the Iraqis being able to fight and do the job. … General Petraeus, as you know, is in charge of training. [He is] upbeat about what they’re seeing with the Iraqi troops.
He may be upbeat, but our government watchdogs are not. Though more than a year and a half has passed since Gen. John Abizaid first announced plans to build Iraq’s security force, the Government Accountability Office reported last month that coalition leadership has still failed “to develop a system to assess the readiness of Iraqi military and police forces so they can identify weaknesses and provide them with effective support.” Moreover, the high number of security forces frequently touted by senior White House officials “overstates the number actually serving,” probably by “tens of thousands.” As one training supervisor, Army Staff Sgt. Craig E. Patrick, admitted recently: “It’s all about perception, to convince the American public that everything is going as planned and we’re right on schedule to be out of here. I mean, they can [mislead] the American people, but they can’t [mislead] us. These guys are not ready.”
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Can’t be a war profiteer if you don’t have a war, and the War Profiteer in Chief is getting precisely the long, deadly, expensive, stupid war he wanted. If the plan was to solve a problem, pack it up, and go home, then he would’ve attacked the right country. If the bad guys had really been in Iraq, they would not have needed to manufacture evidence to justify the war. If all the really bad shit was *actually* going on in Iraq, the FACTS would have been enough to get the country and the world to rally around the cause. But Our Leader and The Party have no use for silly things like facts. All those other countries that actually looked at real factual information that their intelligence was aware of, they all knew the WMD story was bullshit, and they didn’t sign up for the so-called coalition of the willing, basically implying that Our Leader smoked a little too much crack. That would explain his gibbery incoherent press conferences.
April 29th, 2005 at 6:57 amThe insurgents kill the Iraqi forces faster than we can train them..
April 30th, 2005 at 10:01 pmHmmm, sounds a bit suspicious to me….
And how dare that Italian guy rescue that female hostage…kill him at the checkpoint!
In Iraq, you’re either a civilian being killed,
A Police officer being killed,
A soldier being killed,
A politician being killed,
Or a person being detained for killing..
Hmmm, who’s left?
Iraq is about oil, WOW! The whole Mid-east is about oil, WOW again! We have been in the mid-east since the end of WW2 after which we drilled for and set in place facilities for oil production. The Islamic countries wanted the revenues from the oil to build their countries up. So, Truman gave in and let them have all the American investment there. The result was oppressive governments popped up (mostly ruling Monarchies)and we went along with whoever was in power to keep the oil flowing. Don’t forget that the powerful Zionists of the banking communituy helped to establish Isreal and we strongly supported the Shaw of Iran and still support the Saudi ruling family. It was oppressed Saudi arabs that sought out the help of the Taliban Rebels that we previously supported to keep the Soveits out of our oil. By our supporting these harsh governments the peoples of these countries understandibly turned their hatred toward the USA. Woa and behold we’ve created terrorists. Saddom made the mistake of wanting to convert to the EU dollar which would have had a devastating affect on our economy so, exit Saddom. Now we have to deal with the Zionist controlled WTO trying to take over the world by their out and out stealing of all countries wealth, look what happened to Argentina. So, if we control the oil then the WTO cannot control the world. The harsh reality is it is all about GLOBAL control. Wouldn’t it have been nice if we had put our resources and wealth to the developement of alternative power and gave up our excessive lifesyles even tryed rationing our wasteful consumptive habits. Welcome to Orwell!
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