General George Casey, Iraq troop reductions, Iraq war, Iraq war casualties, the surge, warwire
General George Casey, Iraq troop reductions, Iraq war, Iraq war casualties, the surge, warwire

Army Chief Of Staff: "The Surge Has Sucked All Of The Flexibility Out Of The System"

Wall Street Journal   |   January 17, 2008 02:41 PM


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The following is excerpted from a Wall Street Journal article on General David Petraeus's indecision over Iraq troop withdrawals:


Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he hopes to see the U.S. military presence fall below 130,000 by the end of 2008, a position shared by many senior Pentagon commanders who worry the high troop levels in Iraq are causing growing manpower strains on the army.

"The surge has sucked all of the flexibility out of the system," Army Chief of Staff George Casey said in an interview this week. "And we need to find a way of getting back into balance."

But President Bush made clear this week that additional troop withdrawals were far from a sure thing. After a meeting in Kuwait with Gen. Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Mr. Bush said he was open to slowing or stopping the withdrawal of troops to avoid jeopardizing recent security gains in Iraq. "My attitude is, if he didn't want to continue the drawdown, that's fine with me in order to make sure we succeed," Mr. Bush said, referring to Gen. Petraeus.

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I am doing a major rebellion, I did tax exempt my paycheck, no more money for the War out of paycheck. Now, I know what you all are saying, the IRS will come to get you, I have 3 years before they can.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:49 PM on 01/17/2008
- UNCLEJOE I'm a Fan of UNCLEJOE 58 fans permalink
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Tax payers must realise that all the interest on our two Billion a week war debt goes into the pockets of the Bankers who own the private company called the Federal Reserve Bank (FED) who the majority of stockholders are foreigners like the House of Rothschild and the Queen of England besides JP Morgan and the Rockefellers.

This Iraq War is financed by the Federal Reserve Bankers with inflationary fiat monopoly money; with not even by a brown paper bag for assets, just an empty promise to pay.

I think it was Eisenhower who said, "If the American pubic knew how the Federal Reserve Bank was robbing the American public, there would be a violent revolution the next day."

The American public doesn't realise the robbery that is insidiously being perpetrated by the FED because the robbery is spread over decades and the recessions that are cleverly orchestrated by the FED bankers is always blamed on other factors like the subprime lending fiasco which former FED chairman Alan Greenspan put into place before leaving office, knowing only too well the end result would be that the FED bankers would be picking up millions of private homes at below bargain prices.

Ron Paul is the only candidate calling for the elimination of the Federal Reserve System and that is why he'll never get elected and if he does get elected, he will be assassinated before he can begin to withdraw the Congressional Charter that allows the FED to control the monetary system of the USA. That is all that is needed.

And President Andrew Jackson eliminated the Central Bank in the 1830's and US economic prosperity surged within a year.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:42 PM on 01/17/2008

'US insists cluster bombs not bad if used right'

http://uk.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUKL16822789._CH_.242020080116

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:38 PM on 01/17/2008
- wmbear I'm a Fan of wmbear 24 fans permalink

LEAVE BLACKWATER IN IRAQ...

But don't pay them or give them airfare back. Bring the troops home. Sayonara, Blackwater!...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:34 PM on 01/17/2008

Congress dismisses NIE, declares Iran a nuclear threat

http://presscue.com/node/41856

Iran poses a nuclear weapons threat to the United States and its allies, according to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 H R 4986 passed 369-46 by the US House of Representative yesterday, even though the National Intelligence Estimate concluded that that Tehran abandoned its atomic weaponry ambitions in 2003.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:21 PM on 01/17/2008
- StillAmused I'm a Fan of StillAmused 273 fans permalink

... and Junior has sucked all the morality, self-respect and dignity out of the United States. Deserves some grudging admiration -- he undid, in less than eight years, what it took generations of statesmen, great thinkers and patriotic military heroes nearly two-and-a-half centuries to accomplish.

NEVER give the keys to the family car to your drug-addled, dry-drunk, sociopathic nephew. It always turns out badly.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:17 PM on 01/17/2008

Triangulate

I did the wexler thing, thanks for the link. Also sent e-mail.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:15 PM on 01/17/2008
- Nochnoi I'm a Fan of Nochnoi 130 fans permalink
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Why does anyone in the armed services even bother telling the king anything?

They should know by now that he is never, ever going to listen to any of them, any member of Congress, and definitely none of us....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:13 PM on 01/17/2008

I just read some kind of thing where they're going to replace the Hummers with 1/2 million-dollar war wagons. Somebody's making some coin off THIS whole deal!

Oh, and BTW, FTA!

LOL

F.U.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:13 PM on 01/17/2008

The surge was simply more aggression directed upon the Iraqi people. A boot on the neck, if you will. Bush's problem begins when the boot is lifted. A plausible alternative is to turn the expense and control of Blackwater over to the oil companies so it can continue to protect fields and assets as it has done from the outset. Then, our military can be withdrawn. Let Bush explain why the world's only "super power" could not defeat a defenseless nation smaller than his adopted home state.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:08 PM on 01/17/2008
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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:07 PM on 01/17/2008
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shep65

"There are a few Bush supporters who occasionaly try to muster some sort of support for the pres but most folks are pretty like minded in their anti-Bush opinions"

I can't think of

one

not even one of the lowly

trolls around here

seriously ever trying

to defend

bush

they mostly are here

to cut up the

liberals

and dems

funny thing that

heh...

shep65

"It is also a very likely scenario that none of the fustration and anger that is vented on this site is really going to matter"

maybe your posts

don't matter

mine sure as hell do

heh...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:05 PM on 01/17/2008

George Bush is doing more damage to the military and our future ability to enforce foreign policy than Nixon. I guess the little time he spent in the military produced a deep resentment and he is bent to destroy it by firing all the generals who have the guts to speak their mind and grinding the to dust all the equipment and manpower it has in the desert.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:05 PM on 01/17/2008

Let's look at whom is benefitting from this war. The oil industry of course. They made billions and George is over there begging for more oil and trading it for arms. (The military industrial complex) all I get is paying more for gas and not finding-out what happened in that meeting with Cheyney and his 'energy commission' who plotted the war for those reserves in Iraq. I'm fed-up with all of the bushes and lies.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:00 PM on 01/17/2008

Regarding impeachment, Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida has called for hearings -- it's a start. To learn more, check out www.wexlerwantshearings.com and sign up. More than 200,000 have already done so in the past 24 hours. Yes, Cheney, there's trouble in River City.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:59 PM on 01/17/2008
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