Find the strategy
John Burns of the AP follows Gen Peter Pace taking questions from soldiers in a "townhall" format.
I'm sure the soldiers felt much better after all that.
"More U.S. and coalition forces could get the job done quicker, but that would mean dependency much longer for the Iraqi armed forces and the Iraqi government." .....
How much more time, one Marine asked, should the Iraqi government be given to achieve the political unity necessary to stabilize the country?"I guess they have as long as it takes _ which is not forever," Pace replied.....
Pace argued that setting a deadline for the United States to withdraw its support would risk pushing the Iraqis into political decisions that are unviable. On the other hand, he said, "You do not want to leave it open ended."....
One Marine wound up his question about the pace of U.S. troop deployments to Iraq by asking, "Is the war coming to an end?"
Pace didn't answer directly.
I'm sure the soldiers felt much better after all that.
posted by mikevotes at
8:24 AM
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So, Pace is saying that more troops would be good, but then it would be bad because of the whole ‘stand up so we can stand down’ thing. We should give Iraq all the time they need, but not too much. Timetables are bad, open-ended commitments are not good.
One thing about this administration, they never send mixed messages.
“We were for troop deployments before we were against it. We were for setting schedules for elections before we were against setting them for withdrawal. No one could have anticipated that all of those purple trigger fingers would now be setting off detonators.”
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Anonymous, at 2:57 PM
There is no strategy because there are no goals. There are no goals because there is no strategy.
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Lew Scannon, at 3:06 PM
Can you imagine going on patrol getting shot at, almost blown up, watching men in your unit get wounded and killed, and then doing it the next day, and the next, and then you hear this s**t from the man who is supposed to be in charge?
Mike
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mikevotes, at 3:25 PM
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