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Show Vinlava es dee, Iraqis, or half the population.. Zuckerman cites June, 2006's, “Operation Together Forward.” The first stage of this planned “joint effort” was to be made by 26,000 Iraqi soldiers backed by 7,200 U.S. troops. Only 9,000 Iraqi soldiers turned up for it. State II was to have six battalions of Iraqis join an additional 5,500 Americans; two showed up. A half year into “Operation Together Forward,” the U.S. has committed 15,000 soldiers to the mission, while Iraqi combat forc- es involved in this “joint” operation to pacifiy Baghdad streets have never numbered more than 10,000. We are in a stalemate reminiscent of trench warfare in World War I: we spend a lot of money, material, and suffer troop casualties, but can’t get anywhere. When you do not have enough security personnel to stabilize the entire territory, military doctrine calls for selecting a limited area, stabilizing it and holding it to prevent repenetration by insurgents, then slowly expanding the boundaries of that held territory outwards. Within the held territory, you have security so infrastructure rebuilding and restoration of a civilian economy and governance can commence. The U.S. has instead played a game of Whac-a-Mole, jumping around the country whacking at insurgents when they pop up here and there - and therefore everywhere. e Al Qaeda connection: Saddam Hussein seized power in 1979, the same year Ayatollah Khomeni took over Iran. With U.S. support (totaling $5 billion) Hussein attacked Iran on September 22, 1980, as an American proxy. Because Hussein established a secular dictatorship and was a U.S. agent, in 1992 Ossama bin Laden included Saddam Hussein b “L bnew that for #8 fea . Th At d feel the threat before I contd pull the ii igger. L yelled at Jim again to bringhhhe band out slowk, On ay an I could see oe hammer moi to ward me as E put P i i I fis next move.” om Excerpt, Kote’ Were Involved, Chapter 13 Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon, AZ on his list of leaders in Muslim states who were to be murdered to clear the way for Mus- lim theocracies. The Shia in Iraq have a centuries-old rivalry going with those in Iran. If it were not for the superordinate goal of opposing the U.S. occupation, the natives of Iraq would probably not welcome either Al Qaeda or Iran’s involvement. The Neocon Iraq agenda: In September 2000 the Project for the New American Century published its report outlining how the U.S. could fill the world power vacuum left by the collapse of the Soviet Union, establishing a pax Americana. The Project’s recommendations were copied verbatim over into the first National Security Strategy issued by the Bush administration. No wonder. The principals of the Project include Dick Cheney, Whaat Ae lee her eale F the luck: Barth. He didnt catch: work i instead, he went to worl mthe wilds of Americ’s most beautiful national patks, including ae Grand C apo e West, and in os a Ranger Suns ts a of the best, i tt 1, h 4 of) Meyer led an Lat envious Lint 1. fifestyle of ad f { a FL involving dof His isa meneu dint 5 mad 1 ns deh ale ds tik dera~day be soe heMcMbel Goan Meyer ctossed paths ut a hosing s auarvel at how rangers protect tourists when they're not Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, John Bolton, Stephen Cambone, Eliot Cohen, and Devon Gross, all of whom ended up in senior policy positions in the Bush administration. In respect to Iraq, the Project prescribed invading Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein and set up permanent U.S. military bases to stabilize and control the Persian Gulf oil supply. To carry this out, they had to come up with an “excuse” for invasion that would sell to Congress and the U.S. public; so they did. To me, the “bottom line” is that we might as well perform a phased withdrawal from Iraq, starting immediately. I reason that remaining there as a military occupying force cannot win the outcomes we seek because of the reaction we provoke as an infidel invader, and because we cannot afford to put enough security forces into a nation of 22 million to achieve pacification. We are in a stalemate reminiscent of trench warfare in World War I: we spend a lot of money, material, and suffer troop casualties, but can’t get anywhere. Taos ma be heart pp x boats, 38 caliber revolvers, heli optets Che where life is valu Af Soa servingti the United States A O L OEE, Aicheaal Michael BA. Meyer t seaduati hod vy 5 ¢ Pee, PF As eats JOP fr Saguaro, Arches, Death Valley LassenVoas Nae ea, Like inished es Park me tele? fn 1991 b LM 3 J tT); {very little i ad parient law enforcer, you'll {ret vacation season has ended. About The Author z ily hi eh spe sd chases, and sheer cowboy Western Dp Sant Diego State Unit ts! L versity with a dional Park Service at Glacier, ‘urks and Lake Mead National Recreation x ri p won Rational Parb / worked thirte n years in th — fornia Ath’ Iie Ta enforcement with the US Department oftthe Interion He lives in Palin Dar G inne Breaking the stalemate by withdrawing our combat forces, but continuing training and supply assistance as requested by the Iraqi government(s), may not lead to exactly the short or long-term outcomes we desire, but it will produce change and opportunity to get somewhere better. At the least, a principled withdrawal by the U.S. permits us to work on changing the U.S. image internationally, representing our imperialist bully behavior as an aberration of the Bush administration’s neocons - but we're all better now. In summary, Omar Bradley's testimony to Congress about the prospect of extending DAVE'S the Korean War into mainland China applies to our invasion of Iraq: “The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.” We need to get “all oN better now” as quickly as ever we can. Restoring America’s moral authority is ultimately the most effective shield against terrorist attack we can employ. 400 EAST & MILL CREEK DR... 259.6999 Richard Lance Christie is a polymath who has done research in psychoacoustics, hallucinogens, and the rules governing the formation and change of human cognitive schemata and states of consciousness; and designed, programmed and run management information and health delivery systems. 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