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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (525823)	1/18/2004 5:29:51 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I am surprised that the press is now reporting that the US does not feel it can stop the insurgency through military means alone. What does that say about the US's vaunted superpower image? If that doesn't create an image of a US that can be defeated by a few thousand guerilla-types, what does? We bomb Afghanistan but don't get our prime target and we don't create safety in that country. We bomb Iraq but need Kurds to lead us to where Saddam is. Now we're saying, to the entire world, that our superpower military can't quell an insurgency in a country of 25 million newly freed from the shackles of dictatorship? OMG Shrub is systematically destroying our image of superpowerdom just as he depletes our military force. Now we're actually running out of ammo? What the heck is going on? "..The U.S. military's only plant making small-arms ammunition is running at near capacity, 4 million rounds a day, and the United States still is forced to look overseas and to the recreational industry for ammunition for troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and those training to deploy there soon...." sf.indymedia.org