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To: bentway who wrote (171636)	10/1/2005 12:28:56 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Looks like Odom is a bit long in tooth....hasn't been in any Adm since Carter days.... Probably is good teaching Russian though.... William E. Odom Senior Fellow Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Office Areas of Expertise Military and strategic issues Intelligence issues Asian economic and security issues Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies European politics and military issues Biographical Highlights Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a Senior Fellow with Hudson Institute and a professor at Yale University. As Director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, he was responsible for the nation's signals intelligence and communications security. From 1981 to 1985, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the Army's senior intelligence officer. From 1977 to 1981, General Odom was Military Assistant to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs, Zbigniew Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security Council staff, he worked upon strategic planning, Soviet affairs, nuclear weapons policy, telecommunications policy, and Persian Gulf security issues. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1954, and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970.

To: bentway who wrote (171636)	10/1/2005 12:37:21 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Bush is doing bodycounts, a la Vietnam, to claim victory in Iraq. Have you noticed? - repeatedly catching the #2 or #3 man in al-Zarqawi's group but, oddly enough, never knowing if al-Zarqawi has one leg or two...but he did hop off a moving truck and slipped away under an overpass(!) - repeatedly making up baloney about how many batallions (3, no 2, no 3, no 1, no....we don't remember) are ready to fight independently - repeatedly making up claptrap about how many 'security forces' are ready to go. 200,000 er maybe 20,000 er maybe 190,000 er maybe....we don't know. - repeatedly announcing how many 'insurgents' or 'foreign fighters' they've caught or killed in Tal Afar or Fallujah or Mosul or wherever. They did the counting game during Katrina as well. Remember Bush and Chertoff reading off the numbers of MREs and water bottles and crappola they were sending into the Gulf? It's Vietnam all over again. They have no exit strategy, they have no plan, they do not know what victory looks like so this is what they do instead.