Lets get this out of the way:
to b blight - better known as bb coulter - get lost with your girly cries of "Leave our troops alone" and other crap .... THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT BUSH SO STICK IT UP YOUR BUTTHOLE RIGHT NOW WITH ANY OF YOUR TYPICAL WOMANLY PLEAS TO DEFEND BUSH ....
Ok, now on to the story:
NEWS BRIEF: "7 Retired Top US Military: Bush Screwed Up In Iraq - "It's a huge strategic disaster, and it will only get worse.", By Naomi Klein, The Guardian - UK, 12-6-4, reprinted in Rense.com
"The nineteen months since the war in Iraq began, some of the most outspoken critics of President Bush's plan of attack have come from a group that should have been the most supportive: retired senior military leaders ... they all agreed on one thing: Bush screwed up.
* Adam. Transfixed Turner NATO Allied commander for Southern Europe, 1975-77 CIA Director, 1977-81: "We are in a real mess. There are eighty-seven attacks on Americans every day, and our people in Baghdad can't even leave the International Zone without being heavily armored ... We have lost the support of the Iraqi people who were glad to see Saddam go. But they are not glad to see an outside force come in ... I am very frustrated ... All in all, Iraq is a failure of monumental proportions."
* LTV. Gen. William Sodom Director of the National Security Agency, 1985-88: "It's a huge strategic disaster, and it will only get worse. The sooner we leave, the less the damage ... This is the way we were fighting in Vietnam ... The idea of creating a constitutional state in a short amount of time is a joke. It will take ten to fifteen years, and that is if we want to kill ten percent of the population."
* Gen. Merrill 'Tony' Mc Peak Air Force Chief of Staff, 1990-94: "We have a force in Iraq that's much too small to stabilize the situation. It's about half the size, or maybe even a third, of what we need ... we are also sustaining gunshot wounds, when, before, we'd mostly been seeing massive trauma from remotely detonated charges. This means the other side is standing and fighting in a way that describes a more dangerous phase of the conflict."
When you closely follow this conflict, by daily reviewing both American and foreign news sources, you do get the feeling that this conflict has entered a new, more dangerous phase. A Cutting Edge subscriber phoned me a couple weeks ago to tell me that he had talked to a friend who had been assigned to the Pentagon. This friend told him that a "Tet Offensive" style of attack is expected soon.
General McPeak then offered a parallel to Vietnam that most people have not considered before. "The American people were told that to win the Cold War we had to win Vietnam. But we now know that Vietnam was not only a diversion from winning the Cold War but probably delayed our winning it and made it cost more to win. Iraq is a diversion to the war on terror in exactly the same way Vietnam was a diversion to the Cold War."
President Bush made this point a centerpiece to his re-election campaign: The Iraq War is central to our global "War On Terror". General McPeak thinks otherwise and he is in a position to offer a skilled, informed expert opinion. Of course, this Iraq War is not central to any "War On Terror", simply because the terror war was spun out of the attacks on 9/11 which we now know were planned at least as far back as 1995, and were carried out by the Illuminati desiring an excuse to launch these wars in the Middle East and to draft dictatorial domestic laws which, when enacted, will reduce this nation to a severe police dictatorship.
* Gen. Anthony Zinni Commander in chief of the United States Central Command, 1997-2000: "When I was commander of CENTCOM, we had a plan for an invasion of Iraq, and it had specific numbers in it. We wanted to go in there with 350,000 to 380,000 troops ... when we went in we used only 140,000 troops, even though General Eric Shinseki, the army commander, asked for the original number .... I saw the intelligence right up to the day of the war, and I did not see any imminent threat there. If anything, Saddam was coming apart. The sanctions were working. The containment was working. He had a hollow military, as we saw. If he had weapons of mass destruction, it was leftover stuff -- artillery shells and rocket rounds. He didn't have the delivery systems."
Not only were the United Nations arms inspectors telling the world that this was the case, but Cutting Edge was sounding this type of warning nearly every day in our Daily News Updates, prior to the invasion. We ran articles in which Saddam's army was described as "hollow" and in which he was shown not to have delivery vehicles even if he did have nuclear warheads (which we now knew he did not). Yet, the American people allowed this invasion and still are not holding President Bush and his Administration accountable. As New Age author, and former member of US Naval Intelligence, Bill Cooper said over and over:
* Gen. Wesley Clark NATO supreme Allied commander for Europe, 1997-2000: "Have you seen an American strategic blunder this large? The answer is: not in fifty years. I can't imagine when the last one was. And it's not just about troop strength. I mean, you will fail if you don't have enough troops, but simply adding troops won't make you succeed."
* Adm. William Crowe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1985-89: "We screwed up. We were intent on a quick victory with smaller forces, and we felt if we had a military victory everything else would fall in place. We would be viewed not as occupiers but as victors. We would draw down to 30,000 people within the first sixty days. All of this was sheer nonsense ... There is not a very good answer for what to do next. We've pulled out of several places without achieving our objectives, and every time we predicted the end of Western civilization, which it was not ... We left Korea ... We left Vietnam ... We could have the same thing happen this time in Iraq. If we walk away, we are still the number-one superpower in the world ... Weighing the good against the bad, we have got to get out."
to b blight - better known as bb coulter - get lost with your girly cries of "Leave our troops alone" and other crap .... THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT BUSH SO STICK IT UP YOUR BUTTHOLE RIGHT NOW WITH ANY OF YOUR TYPICAL WOMANLY PLEAS TO DEFEND BUSH ....
Ok, now on to the story:
NEWS BRIEF: "7 Retired Top US Military: Bush Screwed Up In Iraq - "It's a huge strategic disaster, and it will only get worse.", By Naomi Klein, The Guardian - UK, 12-6-4, reprinted in Rense.com
"The nineteen months since the war in Iraq began, some of the most outspoken critics of President Bush's plan of attack have come from a group that should have been the most supportive: retired senior military leaders ... they all agreed on one thing: Bush screwed up.
* Adam. Transfixed Turner NATO Allied commander for Southern Europe, 1975-77 CIA Director, 1977-81: "We are in a real mess. There are eighty-seven attacks on Americans every day, and our people in Baghdad can't even leave the International Zone without being heavily armored ... We have lost the support of the Iraqi people who were glad to see Saddam go. But they are not glad to see an outside force come in ... I am very frustrated ... All in all, Iraq is a failure of monumental proportions."
* LTV. Gen. William Sodom Director of the National Security Agency, 1985-88: "It's a huge strategic disaster, and it will only get worse. The sooner we leave, the less the damage ... This is the way we were fighting in Vietnam ... The idea of creating a constitutional state in a short amount of time is a joke. It will take ten to fifteen years, and that is if we want to kill ten percent of the population."
* Gen. Merrill 'Tony' Mc Peak Air Force Chief of Staff, 1990-94: "We have a force in Iraq that's much too small to stabilize the situation. It's about half the size, or maybe even a third, of what we need ... we are also sustaining gunshot wounds, when, before, we'd mostly been seeing massive trauma from remotely detonated charges. This means the other side is standing and fighting in a way that describes a more dangerous phase of the conflict."
When you closely follow this conflict, by daily reviewing both American and foreign news sources, you do get the feeling that this conflict has entered a new, more dangerous phase. A Cutting Edge subscriber phoned me a couple weeks ago to tell me that he had talked to a friend who had been assigned to the Pentagon. This friend told him that a "Tet Offensive" style of attack is expected soon.
General McPeak then offered a parallel to Vietnam that most people have not considered before. "The American people were told that to win the Cold War we had to win Vietnam. But we now know that Vietnam was not only a diversion from winning the Cold War but probably delayed our winning it and made it cost more to win. Iraq is a diversion to the war on terror in exactly the same way Vietnam was a diversion to the Cold War."
President Bush made this point a centerpiece to his re-election campaign: The Iraq War is central to our global "War On Terror". General McPeak thinks otherwise and he is in a position to offer a skilled, informed expert opinion. Of course, this Iraq War is not central to any "War On Terror", simply because the terror war was spun out of the attacks on 9/11 which we now know were planned at least as far back as 1995, and were carried out by the Illuminati desiring an excuse to launch these wars in the Middle East and to draft dictatorial domestic laws which, when enacted, will reduce this nation to a severe police dictatorship.
* Gen. Anthony Zinni Commander in chief of the United States Central Command, 1997-2000: "When I was commander of CENTCOM, we had a plan for an invasion of Iraq, and it had specific numbers in it. We wanted to go in there with 350,000 to 380,000 troops ... when we went in we used only 140,000 troops, even though General Eric Shinseki, the army commander, asked for the original number .... I saw the intelligence right up to the day of the war, and I did not see any imminent threat there. If anything, Saddam was coming apart. The sanctions were working. The containment was working. He had a hollow military, as we saw. If he had weapons of mass destruction, it was leftover stuff -- artillery shells and rocket rounds. He didn't have the delivery systems."
Not only were the United Nations arms inspectors telling the world that this was the case, but Cutting Edge was sounding this type of warning nearly every day in our Daily News Updates, prior to the invasion. We ran articles in which Saddam's army was described as "hollow" and in which he was shown not to have delivery vehicles even if he did have nuclear warheads (which we now knew he did not). Yet, the American people allowed this invasion and still are not holding President Bush and his Administration accountable. As New Age author, and former member of US Naval Intelligence, Bill Cooper said over and over:
"People are not ready to admit that they have been cattle. They are not prepared to fight, and if necessary die, for Freedom. It is an indictment of the citizens of the United States of America ... you, not the conspirators, are guilty because you, by silent acquiescence, invite tyranny and oppression .. once we lose our freedoms we are never going to regain them. That is why we must stand together to prevent the loss of our freedom as citizens of the United States." {"Behold A Pale Horse", Pages 65, 150)
* Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, 1997-2000: "Rumsfeld was profoundly in the dark. I think he really didn't understand what he was doing. He miscalculated the kind of war it was and he miscalculated the interpretation of U.S. behavior by the Iraqi people. They felt they had been invaded. They did not see this as a liberation ... So what do we do? I think it would be very irresponsible for us to simply pull out. It sounds like a very simple solution, but it would have some complexity and danger attached. Still, Iraq is a blood bath, and we need to be dealing with this in a much more sophisticated way than the cowboy named Bush."
* Gen. Wesley Clark NATO supreme Allied commander for Europe, 1997-2000: "Have you seen an American strategic blunder this large? The answer is: not in fifty years. I can't imagine when the last one was. And it's not just about troop strength. I mean, you will fail if you don't have enough troops, but simply adding troops won't make you succeed."
* Adm. William Crowe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1985-89: "We screwed up. We were intent on a quick victory with smaller forces, and we felt if we had a military victory everything else would fall in place. We would be viewed not as occupiers but as victors. We would draw down to 30,000 people within the first sixty days. All of this was sheer nonsense ... There is not a very good answer for what to do next. We've pulled out of several places without achieving our objectives, and every time we predicted the end of Western civilization, which it was not ... We left Korea ... We left Vietnam ... We could have the same thing happen this time in Iraq. If we walk away, we are still the number-one superpower in the world ... Weighing the good against the bad, we have got to get out."
