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Friday, June 22, 2007

BEWARE OF THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES DEMOCRATS

OBSERVE THEIR BEHAVIOR - NOT WHAT THEY SAY.

HOW TO WIN WAR ON TERROR

SOME THOUGHTS ON HOW TO WIN THE WAR ON  TERROR

Positive news from Iraq.  Our military does best fighting wars, not serving as policemen in urban , tribal warfare.
 
Ring around Baghdad should be our strategy.  Let Iraqis restore law and order to the city. We seal borders
to stop inflow of men/munitions from Syria and Iran. Put those two on notice to cease and desist, or else!
 
If Iraqi government can't restore order. Set up  U S military government just like Gen MacArthur did in Japan
after WWII, and as we did in Germany.
 
Restoration of law and order, eradication of  terrorists should be priorities. Once stability happens, Iraqis will
go back to work.
 
Tax oil reserves to pay for U S war effort and pay reparations to families of U S servicemen/women killed and wounded in Iraq/Afghanistan campaigns. Give ordinary Iraqis part of oil revenues, annually, based on good behavior, just like in State of Alaska.
 
Need more boots on ground? Hire Indian army units, place under joint U S/British command.
 
President Bush and politicians should leave war effort to Generals and military. Bush and Congress should
immediately exercise their constitutional authority and responsibility to secure U S borders and ports.
 
No benefits/jobs for illegals. (No driver's licenses, either, Governor Streamroller). No free education. Go home!
Immediately deport thousands of prisoners/felons.  Dump them back across Mexican border or send them to Venezuela.
 
Set up immediate naval blockade of Venezuela. No oil out. No Iraqi/Russian/Chinese arms/missiles in.
 
                                                                             J P Sullivan
 
Read article on Offense by Colonel Ralph Peters:
 
WINNING ON OFFENSE REAL PLAN TO DEFEAT IRAQ FOES
 

June 21, 2007 -- HALLELUJAH! For the first time since Baghdad fell, our military in Iraq has a comprehensive, integrated plan to defeat our enemies.

Until now, our efforts have always been piecemeal, stop-start affairs. Even our success in the Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004 went unexploited.

Things have changed. And terrorists, not just Iraqi civilians, are dying.

The 10,000-man operation reported in the Baquba area is only one part of a broader effort. In the words of a well-placed officer in Baghdad, "Operations like that are going on around Fallujah, Salman Pak, in Eastern Anbar, the belts around Baghdad, in Arab Jabour, outside of Taji and throughout the Diyala River Valley."

This widespread offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq and other terrorists is part of a carefully developed, phased plan. The first step as the troop surge proceeded was to establish livable conditions in key neighborhoods of the capital.

That step was vital, but insufficient in itself. Terrorists fled, but they didn't disappear. They just sought refuge elsewhere. And while neighborhood pacification involved aggressive tactical actions, it ultimately put our forces in a defensive posture.

And you can't win solely by playing defense, either in the NFL or in war.

Gen. David Petraeus understood that. He's done things methodically, operating from a coherent design - not just reacting as was our practice in the past, but imposing our will on the enemy. After regaining lost ground in Baghdad and exploiting Sunni Arab disillusionment with al Qaeda in Anbar Province, our military took the offensive. We pushed the enemy off "our" turf. Now we're going after "their" turf.

This balance between defensive and offensive operations, integrated across central Iraq, is the first time we've seen a classic approach to military operations in post-Saddam Iraq. Amazing, but true.

What hurdles lie ahead?

First, it remains an open question whether we've got enough boots on the ground. While Petraeus and his team are using our forces with remarkable efficiency, there ain't no more to send.

The second, enduring question is whether the Iraqis will finally knock off their squabbling and shoulder their share of the burden. Petraeus is giving us a lesson in skillful generalship, employing U.S. troops where he must, Iraqis where he can. But, in the end, we can't win this unless the Iraqis win it for themselves. Pious statements about "brave Iraqis" only get us so far: We're still only buying time - and no one can pretend that time isn't running out.

Which brings us to the home front, where the war just might be lost, no matter what progress we make on the ground.

Political hucksterism and poll-pandering on Capitol Hill amount to stabbing our troops in the back. Period. The insistence that success or failure will be determined beyond doubt by September is pure political quackery.

The military operations and political maneuvering in Iraq are infernally complex. The earliest we might know anything will be around Thanksgiving - and all we'll know then is whether or not the Iraqis are getting on board in a serious way.

After four lost years, we need to have realistic expectations - unless we intend to throw the game for domestic political reasons. Gen. Petraeus is playing a bad hand with greater skill than we had any right to expect. He's making meaningful tactical progress. We don't yet know if that will translate into a strategic turnaround - but, for God's sake, let's give him a chance.

And let's not lose sight of our own national-security priority, which is defeating al Qaeda. Terror International is having a really bad time in Iraq these days: More and more Sunni Arabs are breaking with al Qaeda and its affiliates over their insufferable brutality. The Baquba-area operations involve former enemies now fighting on our side against the foreign terrorists. That's not just good news for Iraq. It's good news for America.

Much could still go wrong. We don't know if those Sunni Arabs will keep faith with us over the longer term - and now the Shias who control the government are bewailing our new local alliances. Sunni Arabs have realized at last that they've got to "cooperate to graduate." Now the Shia are the ones who insist on playing a zero-sum game.

And, of course, we never eliminated Muqtada al-Sadr. For which we're going to be even sorrier than we are now.

Still, there's reason for sober optimism at the moment: We've finally got a coherent approach to defeating our enemies, not just parrying them. It looks like our military leaders have gotten serious at last.

God help us, it almost looks like we want to win.

Source: NY Post June 21, 2007

Friday, June 15, 2007

GENERAL PACE; AN HONORABLE MARINE

 
 
GENERAL PETER PACE  AN HONORABLE MARINE WHO HAS SERVED THIS COUNTRY WELL.
 
CAN'T SAY THE SAME  FOR THE SECRETERY OF DEFENCE (GATES) and PRESIDENT BUSH.
 
POLITICIANS MAKING BAD CHOICES, SETTING STUPID RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, ARE THE REASONS THE IRAQ WAR HAS GONE BAD .
 
GENERAL PACE WAS WILLING TO TAKE ON HARRY REID, NANCY PELOSI AND THE REST OF THE DISGRACEFUL DEMOCRATS WHO ARE UNDERMINING THE EFFORTS OF OUR TROOPS IN BATTLE.
 
PRESIDENT BUSH WAS WILLING TO TANK GENERAL PACE IN HOPES OF  GETTING THE AMNESTY BILL FOR ILLEGALS ALIENS PASSED.
 
THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS HAVE THE  CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY TO SECURE OUR NATIONS BORDERS. NO  ADDITIONAL ILLEGAL ALIEN LEGISLATION IS NEEDED!
 
DO YOUR JOB CONGRESS AND MR. PRESIDENT - SECURE OUR BORDERS NOW!
 
FAILURE TO SECURE IRAQ's BORDERS  ALLOWING MEN AND WEAPONS IN FROM SYRIA AND IRAN IS PROLONGING THE CONFLICT THERE AND RESULTING IN MANY MORE U S CASUALTIES.
 
LIKEWISE,  CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT ARE FAILING TO ENFORCE THE MONROE DOCTRINE IN LATIN AMERICA BY ALLOWING CHINA, RUSSIA AND IRAN TO  ESTABLISH BASES IN LATIN AMERICA, THAT WILL, ONE DAY, BE USED AGAINST AMERICA.
 
PETTY TIN HORN  HUGO CHAVEZ  (VENEZUELA) WILL ALLOW IRAN TO SET UP MISSLES THAT CAN REACH EVERY U S AND CANADIAN CITY.
 
IRAN WILL BE ABLE TO USE CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS TO INFLICT TERRIBLE DAMAGE ON AMERICA.
 
WHAT ARE PRESIDENT BUSH AND CONGRESS WAITING FOR???
 
THE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS WILL UNITE WITH NATIVE BORN MALCONTENTS  TO SERVE AS THE GROUND TROOPS FOR THE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS WHO SEEK TO DESTROY US.
 
THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION MAY NEVER HAPPEN.  WAKE UP AMERICA, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE FOR THE NATION AND FOR US AND OUR LOVED ONES.
 
                                                                                             J P SULLIVAN
                                                                                             ALBANY, NEW YORK