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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Road Walker who wrote (272681)2/7/2006 4:13:13 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1575600
 
This is the same butthole who said at the beginning of the war, the war may take six days, six weeks but no more than six months. That was three years ago. What a butthole!

Washington digs in for a 'long war' as Rumsfeld issues global call to arms

Simon Tisdall
Tuesday February 7, 2006
The Guardian

The Bush administration's re-characterisation of its "global war on terror" as the "long war" will be seen by critics as an admission that the US has started something it cannot finish. But from the Pentagon's perspective, the change reflects a significant upgrading of the "generational" threat posed by worldwide Islamist militancy which it believes to have been seriously underestimated.

The reassessment, contained in the Pentagon's quadrennial defence review presented to Congress yesterday, presages a new US drive to rally international allies for an ongoing conflict unlimited by time and space. That presents a problematic political, financial and military prospect for many European Nato members including Britain, as well as Middle Eastern governments.

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guardian.co.uk
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