A US recipe for endless war in Iraq
Asia Times
by Gareth Porter
04/26/07
The notion of a two-sided war in the Sunni heartland of Iraq between al-Qaeda and US forces bolsters the Bush administration’s position that any talk of a timetable for withdrawal is defeatist. To avoid such accusations, the Democrat legislation setting a timetable for withdrawal contains large loopholes that would allow US troops to carry out operations in the Sunni area indefinitely. This political gamesmanship ignores the anti-al-Qaeda Sunni resistance organizations, which represent a clear alternative to an endless US occupation...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID27Ak02.html
Dealing with the devil
Truthout
by Marc Ash
04/26/07
The Marines have a rule: they never, ever leave fallen Marines on the battlefield. No such call to honor and duty concerns our political leaders. Those now seeking the latest one hundred billion dollars say that the money is needed to support our troops. That is not true. Our troops have been abandoned in a foreign land, their only purpose, to justify another one hundred billion dollars, and another. The money itself becomes the rational[e] for continuing the war...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042607A.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter
by Gareth Porter
04/26/07
The notion of a two-sided war in the Sunni heartland of Iraq between al-Qaeda and US forces bolsters the Bush administration’s position that any talk of a timetable for withdrawal is defeatist. To avoid such accusations, the Democrat legislation setting a timetable for withdrawal contains large loopholes that would allow US troops to carry out operations in the Sunni area indefinitely. This political gamesmanship ignores the anti-al-Qaeda Sunni resistance organizations, which represent a clear alternative to an endless US occupation...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID27Ak02.html
Dealing with the devil
Truthout
by Marc Ash
04/26/07
The Marines have a rule: they never, ever leave fallen Marines on the battlefield. No such call to honor and duty concerns our political leaders. Those now seeking the latest one hundred billion dollars say that the money is needed to support our troops. That is not true. Our troops have been abandoned in a foreign land, their only purpose, to justify another one hundred billion dollars, and another. The money itself becomes the rational[e] for continuing the war...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042607A.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter
rudkla - 27. Apr, 15:56
