so much for the "surge"

[Bruno]

My friends, we need to surge the surge so we can accomplish the mission that was accomplished and win the war that was won for the next 10,000 years

 

[colecrowe]

bump

 

[hawks4ronpaul]

My friends, we need to surge the surge so we can accomplish the mission that was accomplished and win the war that was won for the next 10,000 years

Exactly, see http://hawks4ronpaul.blogspot.com/2008/01/finish-job-scam.html

 

[forsmant]

I think we should just come out with the true intentions of the war. The intention of opening up Iraq to foreign oil corporations to secure oil for western nations. This is a good strategic move for the United States. We also got rid of Saddam and his human rights violations. It is just to bad that Bush had to cloak his intentions in deceit of WMD's.

The embassy looks as though we are going to rule that country through the back door channels to protect western investment. No politician is willing to come out and say this. it is not politically correct to conquer countries anymore.

 

[skeryl]

I dont know if this info about the surge has been posted before... but here goes

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17899543

Some 70,000 former insurgents are now being paid $10 a day by the U.S. military. It costs about a quarter billion dollars a year.

It's a controversial strategy, and Macgregor warns that it's creating a parallel military force in Iraq that is made up almost entirely of Sunni Muslims.

"We need to understand that buying off your enemy is a good short-term solution to gain a respite from violence," he says, "but it's not a long-term solution to creating a legitimate political order inside a country that, quite frankly, is recovering from the worst sort of civil war."