Hi Sig; Re: "Kindly provide the 5 main ingredients of this campaign as stated by the Administration with some references."
What's this, a homework assignment? I'll take your list the way it is:
Re: "(1) getting the oil production back to speed."
ANOTHER oil pipeline fire today. Like I told you guys last year, oil production (and refining, etc.) is the easiest thing for a guerilla force to sabotage. The administration's objective was to have oil production higher by the end of 2003. That objective has been indefinitely postponed.
Re: " to set up an Iraqi government ..."
It's easy enough to set up an Iraqi government that hates us, LOL, but the administration doesn't want that. Instead, they're making zero progress in that area as well. The administration objective was to have elections as early as 2003. Now that objective has been postponed into the indefinite future.
Re: "... train a police force ..."
This was not an administration objective at all. They apparently believed that the Iraqi military and police would transfer their allegiance over directly to the US authorities, despite the fact that the US did not intend on paying their salaries. When this rather imaginative and prayerful plan failed, it became obvious that new police would have to be trained. Unfortunately, that will take years, even under the optimistic timelines currently bandied about by the administration.
Re: "... and to hunt down Saddams supporters ..."
This was an objective of the plan, and by and large, they're making progress on it. Saddam is still loose, but my guess is that he will eventually be found. Unfortunately, none of this has anything to do with the wider problems of the war in Iraq. Bush could have simply had Saddam assassinated by the CIA and it would have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars.
Re: "... to gain support from other countries."
Another objective that has failed miserably, with US and UK troops still accounting for the vast majority of a horribly inadequate occupation force.
-- Carl |
