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To: JDN who wrote (231922)12/18/2007 6:08:09 AM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (1) of 793835
 
MSM is moving away from the war as an issue at least temporarily. Demo candidates can't stand the heat of battlefield successes. MSM will be back in force as soon as there is something negative to report.

It looks like Congress is going to delay $$ decisions until March by approving a few months of war funding. To do less would piss off 700,000 DOD civilian employees....whoa baby, can't do that.

March is when Petraeus' next report is due and the primaries will be over.

Our Forces continue to have tactical battlefield success. I remain skeptical regarding how successful the Iraqis will be in converting that to strategic success.

The reason is our initial stand up of a free Iraq was flawed. We arranged national elections before local and regional elections. Were the latter held first, the national leadership would have risen like cream from politicians who had to have had a significant role in local security to be elected. That equates to accepting risk. The current national leadership is so risk adverse they disappeared for 2 months while the fighting raged.

As it now stands, the Iraqi national leadership does not have a personal security stake in a free Iraq and corrupt elements are everywhere.

Some recipes smell bad just thinking about them.
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