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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Jerrel Peters who wrote (466750)9/29/2003 5:48:34 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
No "leftist bias", it IS going badly in Iraq. The Georgia congressman is telling the media to support the troops and post-war effort more. Fine. Don't don't tell ONLY the bad news. But that doesn't change the fact that our troops there have an almost impossible job to do by themselves and are dying in great numbers. With open borders all around and tons of weapons in that country, they need help.

I heard a non-leftist recent visitor to Baghdad interviewed last week and he said once his convoy got 20 miles outside Baghdad city limits on the main highway they were stopped and mugged by bandits with AK-47's. No law and order anywhere around. They could have been murdered but just lost their money. They ran into some US troops later who apologoized but said they just dont have anywhere near the amount of manpower to police the country.

The convoy got to the Jordanian border and saw only two US troops three at the main crossing. Trucks were being waved in from Jordan without even being searched.

You see, the lack of UN peacekeepers and an Iraqi replacement government was just piss-poor planning and diplomacy. The rush to war meant once the invasion was over, that quagmire was all ours to manage. And we cannot do the job without another 100,000 troops. Iraqi troops will help but that takes time. Meanwhile we have to pay for everything and our troops lose an average of one man a day, not including those who are wounded or fall ill from mysterious toxic poisoning that's going around a la Gulf War syndrome.

87 billion for this year alone. The Bushies told us the whole war would cost 60 billion. That was just for the invasion though and that's already been spent. Also, no oil flowing yet. And WMD's found either. You have to admit there is a lot to cricize. Not criticizing the troops, but the policy-makers in the White House. And not just "leftists" are doing the criticizing, not by any means.
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