The War on Terrorism...yet extremist right wing groups were omitted from the Homeland Security annual report on threats.
If Iraq was such a threat, then why did Gen. Schwarzkopf negotiate a ceasefire ending DeAsert Storm allowing Sadaam to keep his weaponry and airfleet? Why did a soldier do a diplomat's job?
If we are serious about winning hearts and minds in Iraq, then why aren't the most trained, most qualified and most educated about Arab culture and religion there instead of 50% Guard/Reserve and conventional active duty?
Battling counterinsurgency demands those warriors trained in COIN tactics. Why isn't this happening?
Why were fundamentalist Christian groups allowed in country to proselytize freely knowing it would create friction with the Moslems?
President Bush promised Iraqi reconstruction would be paid for with Iraq oil proceeds yet Congress is being tasked for more and more money.
Outsourced American security groups have been recently arrested by our military and held for firing into Iraqi civilians. How many are there and what restraints exist for their actions?
The questions are endless, but the answers are not so forthcoming from this administrationl. Glib responses in this thread nor from the Bush Administration cannot be excused by pasting over with supposed patriotism nor blind obedience. America has a right to know why servicemembers are dying and what for instead of some of the responses in this thread. We have a right to survey the Reagan and Bush Sr. presidential records which Bush Jr. sealed by executive order in deference to established federal law requiring openeness, research and analysis and academicians.
If Sadaam was so bad, then why did the United States supply him arms, WMD information and chemical/biological weapons under the Reagan/Bush Sr. administrations? Understandably the US had a policy of letting Iran and Iraq decimate each other in a bloody war, but why supply both with WMD information and chemical/biological components? Was Sadaam any less cruel to his people during this time? The answer is of course not since he gassed the Kurds, tortured freely and this nation did nothing but look the other way.
Iraqi helicopters flew shortly after General Schwarzkopf concluded armistice talks killing thousands of Kurds and Shias in open view of US units and American controlled airspace. This country did nothing to curtail the violent activities in spite of President Bush Sr. encouraging both groups to open rebel, but failed to support those words when the rebellion occurred. He was later criticized even the most conservative commentators for his reluctant.
Methinks this current American leadership is at a loss due to their own guiding ideology and values which are suspect since they also involve letting servicemembers and veterans die for lack of care. Saving a dollar is more important than providing a grateful nation's thanks for a job done. Find this hard to believe, a recent GAO report found the pentagon had withheld compensation and medical care for the wounded due to a lack of funding. Pentagon reps stated national security was more important than the wounded. Veterans Hospitals have already began closing down wards due to lack of funding and diversion of money to other sources by the administration.
So in the end, who is the greater enemy? The terrorists within or the ones external.
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