Friday 29th of March 2024

hither & thither: the boys in a dither .....

 

 the boys in a dither .....

 

"I do not want to see a precipitated coalition withdrawal because that would plunge the country (Iraq) into much greater bloodshed, it would embolden the terrorists, it would be an enormous humiliation for the United States & it would damage Australia's security interests, particularly against terrorists in this part of the world,"

rogue rattus attacking premature withdrawal …..

"The Americans are responsible for the most violent & difficult part of the country. Anybody who studies Iraq for five minutes knows that controlling Baghdad is infinitely more challenging than controlling Basra."

rogue rattus justifying premature withdrawal …..

“The British military is approaching operational failure,"

former British defence staff chief Charles Guthrie explaining premature withdrawal ….

"It's the classic case of 'Let's declare victory & get out.' "

Clive Jones, a senior lecturer in Middle East politics at the University of Leeds rationalising premature withdrawal …..

“It makes good sense.”

Foreign Affairs fool, Alexander Airhead, promoting premature withdrawal …..

"The only option for our security and survival is to go on the offensive - face the threat directly, patiently and systematically until the enemy is destroyed."

Capo di Tutti Capi of the bushit crime family, “Jabba” Cheney, spruiking fantasyland .....

"I think that Iraq is going to go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy because we have lost the element of the goodness of American power and we have lost our moral authority,"

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on surging moral turpitude …..

“The British decision is a sign that the strategy of handing control over to Iraqis is working,”

conning Condoleezza Rice experiencing withdrawal symptoms after taking too many pink ones …..

"Prime Minister Howard and the nation that he serves have never wavered in the war on terror. The United States appreciates it and the whole world respects him for it."

Capo di Tutti Capi of the bushit crime family, “Jabba” Cheney, turning a withdrawal into a stampede …..

"It's never a political liability, ever, for the prime minister of Australia to have a good relationship with the president & the vice-president of the United States,"

rogue rattus making everyone sick …..

Occupation hazards

Old Problems Undermine New Security Plan for Baghdad

Max Becherer/Polaris, for The New York Times

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

Published: February 23, 2007

BAGHDAD, Feb. 19 —It looked like a scene out of a counterinsurgency training video. Dressed in crisp uniforms with a computer-generated camouflage of blue, gray and brown, Iraqi national police officers joined United States troops on searches late last week through relatively calm districts of Shaab and Ur in northeast Baghdad in the first large operation of the Baghdad security plan.

But appearances in Iraq can often be deceiving. At least two of the national police officers who turned out for the operation were moving ahead of the American troops not to lead the security drive but to warn the residents to hide their weapons and other incriminating evidence.

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Gus: in the same circumstances, I would do the same...