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May 11, 2007 at 17:14:13

GENERALS REVOLT WHILE BUSH GOES AWOL

by Allen L Roland     Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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"The challenge we face today is not how to win in Iraq; it is how to recover from a strategic mistake: invading Iraq in the first place.

The war could never have served American interests.

"But it has served Iran's interest by revenging Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran in the 1980s and enhancing Iran's influence within Iraq. It has also served al Qaeda's interests, providing a much better training ground than did Afghanistan, allowing it to build its ranks far above the levels and competence that otherwise would have been possible.

"We cannot 'win' a war that serves our enemies interests and not our own. Thus continuing to pursue the illusion of victory in Iraq makes no sense. We can now see that it never did.

"A wise commander in this situation normally revises his objectives and changes his strategy, not just marginally, but radically. Nothing less today will limit the death and destruction that the invasion of Iraq has unleashed.

"No effective new strategy can be devised for the United States until it begins withdrawing its forces from Iraq. Only that step will break the paralysis that now confronts us. Withdrawal is the pre-condition for winning support from countries in Europe that have stood aside and other major powers including India, China, Japan, Russia.

"It will also shock and change attitudes in Iran, Syria, and other countries on Iraq's borders, making them far more likely to take seriously new U.S. approaches, not just to Iraq, but to restoring regional stability and heading off the spreading chaos that our war has caused.

"The bill that Congress approved this week, with bipartisan support, setting schedules for withdrawal, provides the President an opportunity to begin this kind of strategic shift, one that defines regional stability as the measure of victory, not some impossible outcome.

"I hope the President seizes this moment for a basic change in course and signs the bill the Congress has sent him. I will respect him greatly for such a rare act of courage, and so too, I suspect, will most Americans.

"This is retired General Odom. Thank you for listening."

General Odom has served as Director of the National Security Agency and Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the Army's senior intelligence officer. 

OpEdNews columnist Allen L Roland is available for comments & interviews. ( allen@allenroland.com

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Edward Ulysses Cate

President Is AWOL

""To put this in a simple army metaphor, the Commander-in-Chief seems to have gone AWOL, that is 'absent without leave.' He neither acts nor talks as though he is in charge. Rather, he engages in tit-for-tat games."

 Exactly. Bush is not, and was never in charge of anything.  We are seeing the worse of the worse, the end game of a 400 year war, where just about every high-ranking position in business, education and religion has been filled with a psychopath. (ASD anti-social disorder)  We cannot kill this Dragon.  We must simply stop feeding it.  Then it will retreat to its lair and hibernate until another unwitting generation comes along.  Think this doesn't make sense? Then try to imagine riches and political authority being given to the worse bully you have ever personally known.  Then multiply that by thousands.  Now try to imagine how they would control a country of 300 million. 

by EdUCate (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 22 comments) on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 9:54:55 AM
 



Teilhard

REPLY TO EDUCATE

We cannot kill this Dragon.  We must simply stop feeding it.  Then it will retreat to its lair and hibernate until another unwitting generation comes along. 

I like that, for indeed it is a dragon which must be starved to death. The first step is to stop funding this Middle East travesty ~ The second step is change our priorities from operating out of fear to being in service to mankind ~ which leads to the third step ~ electing a President who reflects those values . I still feel Al Gore is that man and the dream ticket for 2008 would be the " ticket of Integrity " Gore/Feingold.

Allen L Roland

by teilhard (459 articles, 0 quicklinks, 84 comments) on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 11:25:03 AM
 



Pappy

DUBYA isn't AWOL...

...he's HWOB (Here WithOut Brain(or Balls, if you will)). It's obvious that his brain is nowhere to be seen. You can't see it when he "acts". You can't hear it when he speaks. He has no brain at all. He, like his pet war, is on automatic pilot. If you look behind him, you will see the hole where either Dick(LESS) Cheney or Hot Karl stick their hand to make him talk. Not unlike the ventriloquist dummy, there is nothing in the dummy that is DUBYA other than the burned out, coked out shell of an intellectual imbecile.

I think it's hilarious how the tide has turned against DUBYA. Even as CNN and the rest of the media cheerleaders for DUBYA spew spin spuriously, the tissue of lies that held the DUBYA administration together is tearing, shredding, and falling to pieces in the wind of truth that is blowing across America.

The only question is how long will this wind of truth continue to blow. Now that generals critical of DUBYA's Iraq fuck-up are coming out to speak their peace, it is becoming harder for the liars to keep up with the truth. The spin alchemists are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up the pace on their misinformation campaign.

The reason for this is, as the so-called gang of eleven have pointed out, DUBYA has no more credibility on the Iraq War. In other words, even the Republicans' supporters, the targets of the spin alchemists, are no longer buying the bullshit. I have a sneaking feeling this is all going to come to a head, and someone with a real set of balls, and a lot of credibility and clout is going to call DUBYA on the carpet publicly, and it is going to be such an embarrassment for DUBYA and his regime, there will be no recovering. I can't wait to see it happen!

Blessed be!
Pappy

by pappy_mcfae (43 articles, 0 quicklinks, 146 comments) on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 1:50:43 PM
 



Teilhard

RELPY TO PAPPY

I have a sneaking feeling this is all going to come to a head, and someone with a real set of balls, and a lot of credibility and clout is going to call DUBYA on the carpet publicly, and it is going to be such an embarrassment for DUBYA and his regime, there will be no recovering. I can't wait to see it happen!

The stage is set for that to happen, Pappy ~ but it certainly will not be one of the present crop of Republican Presidential Want-To-Be's .

My guess, Al Gore, whose new book, due out any month now ~ and who certainly has the credibility and clout ~ will take both Bush and Cheney to task and set the stage for his eventual decision to run.

Allen L Roland

by teilhard (459 articles, 0 quicklinks, 84 comments) on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 2:12:17 PM
 


Patrick

No Law No Authority

It is nice to focus on the lawless band of Fiends in high places these days, yet if we care to look more deeply, we can understand that it did not start with BushFiend and Company.

The 1946 decision by our "Master" class,  to go ahead with a massive genocidal planetary destroying build up of nuclear weapons, violated humanity and basically "broke the law."

Our Fiend class of that time could not help themselves; they saw the opportunity to finally kill the mass of the human race, and they decided to do just that; destroy the mass of the human race with the aid of the newly invented nuclear explosives.

We have repeatedly been "nuked" over the years, with no affect, not because the weapons were not available, rather the high level powers have said no to the genocidal extermination of humanity.

When "ET" says no, no it is.

The decision to go ahead with a massive build up of nuclear weapons, was illegal and a violation of an assortment of laws both of Nations and common law.

Our Fiend class makes up it's own laws as it crimes along its way. Fiend Inc. considers that they have the right to exterminate us based upon the "True Law, that is they consider that we are too stupid to figure out that war is a crime against the entire human race not merely the "Selected and Decided upon foe," so that gives them the right to kill us all.

It is clear that left to their own designs, our nuclear armed Fiend class would have indeed won out and imposed their "True Law" upon the body of humanity and Fiend exterminated us already, and would have succeeded in our destruction if not  for the  unmentionable intervention into our world by some still unknown  group of Extraterrestrials. 

After going about among the mass of the ordinary people and seeing so many faces of Angels, it is easy to understand why the "ET" prefer that the human race continue to exist.

So it seems that our nuclear war fighting Fiend elite have had their "True Law" revoked by the higher level powers and Fiend Inc. is no more in any lawful business. Having demonstrated that they have no Law, they have also lost their ability to exercise any authority.

No Law No Authority.

To the Military people who can understand what reality is calling upon us to recognize, prepare yourselves for your next important assignment. The mass arrests of our nuclear war fighting enemy Fiend elite.

They recognize no Law other than some genocidal Fiend plot against us. Their time has ended. They have no authority. Their crimes against the human race are complete. Fiend Inc. is finished.

No Law No Authority.

.

by pjrsullivan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 45 comments) on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 3:31:34 PM
 



Teilhard

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No law, No Authority ~ No Action, No Peace ~ It's time for action and there is no change without action.

Allen L Roland

by teilhard (459 articles, 0 quicklinks, 84 comments) on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 3:52:07 PM
 

 

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