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Who is the enemy in Iraq? | |||||||||||
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Deputy Secretary
of State Richard Armitage admitted to senators that
officials in the State and Defense departments know
little about the enemy in Iraq and they had
underestimated the insurgency...
While our leaders insist on controlling the resources
and reconstruction of Iraq. The situation in
Iraq escalates. If we can't identify the enemy,
perhaps we need to take some action. We can
secure the situation by opening up the bidding on the
reconstruction. This will allow the establishment of a
UN presence so they can do what they do best.
Our troops are not trained to arrange elections or
rebuild nations.
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 Wolfowitz: "Pentagon underestimated" Picture is from: http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/depsecdef_bio.html/ Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz last week blamed the Iraq bad news on cowardly journalists who "sit in Baghdad and publish rumors." Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Wolfowitz, and General Richard Myers (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) told the Senate Armed Services Committee, that the enemy in Iraq is made up of “thousands of hidden fighters,” a “minority of extremists,” or “former members of Saddam Hussein’s regime.” As long as the administration sticks to this script, we will continue to suffer avoidable losses and unacceptable casualties. We are fighting a much larger opposition than they seem willing to admit. When we bombed Iraq in 1991 we destroyed 10-20 thousand homes. Multiply that by five and there are fifty to one hundred thousand people (and their progeny over the last 13 years) who are upset with the United States. When you add the friends, relatives, and acquaintances of the 40 thousand mostly innocent Iraqi’s at Abu Ghraib prison, there exist another 200 thousand or more who are angry with the occupying force. These 300 thousands do not even factor in the dead, injured, and homeless and their relatives and friends, from our most recent invasion. Electricity and clean water, a year after Bush declared the war was won, are still problematic. There is actually less dependable electricity today than before or after we invaded Iraq a year ago. A predictable civil war is breaking out between Iraqi factions, and our occupation troops are a handy target for their frustrations. We have found no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam is dethroned. Since our brutish occupation and failed reconstruction efforts only serve as recruitment drives for terrorists....it's time to leave. Secretary of State Armitage makes these claims: "I don't think anyone in this administration can tell you with a great deal of accuracy who they are and how many they are..." Taking him at his word, we need to reassess our purposes in Iraq. It's time to admit we are at war with a nation at war with itself… best
regards, Tim Flanagan WritingResources: http://www.writingresource.org/ ComputerConceptsOne: https://www.angelfire.com/electronic/cis120/ Unions: https://www.angelfire.com/electronic/cis120/union.html Activism: https://www.angelfire.com/mt/peaceresources/activism.html
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