Ubiquitous
03-27-2008, 10:30 PM
garrethhume@yahoo.com wrote:
>Dick Cheney
>April 1991
>
>"I think for us to get American military personnel involved in
>a civil war inside Iraq would literally be a QUAGMIRE. Once we
>got to Baghdad, what would we do? Who would we put in power?
>What kind of government would we have? Would it be a Sunni
>government, a Shia government, a Kurdish government? Would it
>be secular along the lines of the Ba'ath Party? Would it be
>fundamentalist Islamic? I do not think the United States wants
>to have U.S. military forces accept casualties and accept the
>responsibility of trying to govern Iraq. I think it makes no
>sense at all."
Thanks for proving my point by attempting to use a partial quote from
over ten years before Iraq's liberation to describe it as a quagmire.
>LTG (RET) RICARDO S. SANCHEZ.
>Former commander US forces,Iraq.
>12 OCTOBER 2007
>
>"THERE HAS BEEN A GLARING, UNFORTUNATE, DISPLAY OF INCOMPETENT
>STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP WITHIN OUR NATIONAL LEADERS. AS A JAPANESE
>PROVERB SAYS, "ACTION WITHOUT VISION IS A NIGHTMARE." THERE IS NO
>QUESTION THAT AMERICA IS LIVING A NIGHTMARE WITH NO END IN SIGHT"
>
>"AFTER MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OF FIGHTING, AMERICA CONTINUES ITS
>DESPERATE STRUGGLE IN IRAQ WITHOUT ANY CONCERTED EFFORT TO
>DEVISE A STRATEGY THAT WILL ACHIEVE "VICTORY" IN THAT WAR TORN
>COUNTRY OR IN THE GREATER CONFLICT AGAINST EXTREMISM. FROM A
>CATASTROPHICALLY FLAWED, UNREALISTICALLY OPTIMISTIC WAR PLAN TO THE
>ADMINISTRATION'S LATEST "SURGE" STRATEGY, THIS
>ADMINISTRATION HAS FAILED TO EMPLOY AND SYNCHRONIZE ITS
>POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND MILITARY POWER. THE LATEST "REVISED
>STRATEGY" IS A DESPERATE ATTEMPT BY AN ADMINISTRATION THAT HAS
>NOT ACCEPTED THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REALITIES OF THIS WAR
>AND THEY HAVE DEFINITELY NOT COMMUNICATED THAT REALITY TO THE
>AMERICAN PEOPLE"
>
>"THE BEST WE CAN DO WITH THIS FLAWED APPROACH IS STAVE OFF
>DEFEAT. THE ADMINISTRATION, CONGRESS AND THE ENTIRE
>INTERAGENCY, ESPECIALLY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, MUST SHOULDER THE
>RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS CATASTROPHIC FAILURE AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
>MUST HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE."
>
> "NEGLECT AND INCOMPETENCE AT THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
>LEVEL, THAT IS THE PATH OUR POLITICAL LEADERS CHOSE"
Strange how you managed to exclude the part where he blames the liberal
media for undermining our liberation of Iraq...
--
It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.
>Dick Cheney
>April 1991
>
>"I think for us to get American military personnel involved in
>a civil war inside Iraq would literally be a QUAGMIRE. Once we
>got to Baghdad, what would we do? Who would we put in power?
>What kind of government would we have? Would it be a Sunni
>government, a Shia government, a Kurdish government? Would it
>be secular along the lines of the Ba'ath Party? Would it be
>fundamentalist Islamic? I do not think the United States wants
>to have U.S. military forces accept casualties and accept the
>responsibility of trying to govern Iraq. I think it makes no
>sense at all."
Thanks for proving my point by attempting to use a partial quote from
over ten years before Iraq's liberation to describe it as a quagmire.
>LTG (RET) RICARDO S. SANCHEZ.
>Former commander US forces,Iraq.
>12 OCTOBER 2007
>
>"THERE HAS BEEN A GLARING, UNFORTUNATE, DISPLAY OF INCOMPETENT
>STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP WITHIN OUR NATIONAL LEADERS. AS A JAPANESE
>PROVERB SAYS, "ACTION WITHOUT VISION IS A NIGHTMARE." THERE IS NO
>QUESTION THAT AMERICA IS LIVING A NIGHTMARE WITH NO END IN SIGHT"
>
>"AFTER MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OF FIGHTING, AMERICA CONTINUES ITS
>DESPERATE STRUGGLE IN IRAQ WITHOUT ANY CONCERTED EFFORT TO
>DEVISE A STRATEGY THAT WILL ACHIEVE "VICTORY" IN THAT WAR TORN
>COUNTRY OR IN THE GREATER CONFLICT AGAINST EXTREMISM. FROM A
>CATASTROPHICALLY FLAWED, UNREALISTICALLY OPTIMISTIC WAR PLAN TO THE
>ADMINISTRATION'S LATEST "SURGE" STRATEGY, THIS
>ADMINISTRATION HAS FAILED TO EMPLOY AND SYNCHRONIZE ITS
>POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND MILITARY POWER. THE LATEST "REVISED
>STRATEGY" IS A DESPERATE ATTEMPT BY AN ADMINISTRATION THAT HAS
>NOT ACCEPTED THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REALITIES OF THIS WAR
>AND THEY HAVE DEFINITELY NOT COMMUNICATED THAT REALITY TO THE
>AMERICAN PEOPLE"
>
>"THE BEST WE CAN DO WITH THIS FLAWED APPROACH IS STAVE OFF
>DEFEAT. THE ADMINISTRATION, CONGRESS AND THE ENTIRE
>INTERAGENCY, ESPECIALLY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, MUST SHOULDER THE
>RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS CATASTROPHIC FAILURE AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
>MUST HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE."
>
> "NEGLECT AND INCOMPETENCE AT THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
>LEVEL, THAT IS THE PATH OUR POLITICAL LEADERS CHOSE"
Strange how you managed to exclude the part where he blames the liberal
media for undermining our liberation of Iraq...
--
It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.