We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.
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We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.
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The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.
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But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.
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We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
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The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.
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A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
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The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces.
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We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.
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Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.
Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.
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We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.
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Beating Around The Bush: A Foreign Policy
Saddam claimed to be greater
than Hitler and Nebuchadnezzar,
an ancient king of Babylon.
Saddam believed he would
build a Greater Empire than both,
beginning from modern Iraq.
This is the man Mr Bush!
Decided to let continue
to rule during his watch?
In 1979 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
claimed he was a direct lineal descendant
of Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II.
Saddam called himself Nebuchadnezzar III
had coins struck showing his likeness
coined with the Babylonian king on these coins.
The two likenesses proved to be! Uncannily similar!
In his memoirs George Herbert Bush
compared Saddam to Adolf Hitler!
Aspirations for Empire! Ambitions!
Ethnic Cleansing! Rule by Dictatorship!
[Chemical weapons, deportations!
Forced disappearances, Secret police!
Targeted assassinations, torture, murders!
Sounds like a resume of Adolf Hitler!
Yes Saddam was another Hitler wanta be! ]
[This is monster Mr Bush
decided to let continue
to rule during his watch? ]
Invasion and Annexation
Kuwait invaded by Iraqi!
August 2 1990!
Iraqi forces first bomb
Kuwait City terror tactics!
The Kuwaiti civilian capital
attacked by Iraqi commandos!
Deployed by helicopters boats
all airports two airbases seized!
Remember Invasion Kuwait?
Saddam’s Iraq-Kuwait War?
Major conflict! Republic of Iraq!
State of Kuwait! Occupation!
Seven-month long Iraqi occupation!
Leading to direct military intervention!
United States-led forces in the Gulf War!
Remember Human Shields!
Western hostages!
August 23 1990!
Iraqi state television!
Saddam patted a small British boy!
Stuart Lockwood on the back!
Saddam asked through his interpreter!
‘Stuart is Stuart getting his milk’?
Saddam said 'We hope your presence
as guests here will not be for too long.
Your presence here, and in other places,
is meant to prevent the scourge of war.'
Remember Iraq-Kuwait War?
Two days of intense combat!
Kuwaiti Armed Forces!
Overrun by Iraqi Republican Guard!
Kuwaiti survivors escaped to border neighbours!
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain!
State of Kuwait was Iraqi abolished!
Saddam announced19th province of Iraq!
Empire building Saudi Arabia!
Saddam slotted for next invasion!
Saudi Oil! Black Gold! Saddam’s!
American dependent on Saudi Oil?
Kuwait had been a close ally of Iraq!
Kuwait had heavily funded the 8 year!
Iraqi war against Iran! Iraq-Iran war!
Kuwait functioned as Iraq’s major port!
Port Basra in Iraq had been shut down by fighting!
Invasion was the thanks Kuwait received!
First domino to fall in Saddam’s Empire Building!
The gall to attack under America’s nose!
Or surprise invasion Bush sanctioned?
American Ambassador in Iraq April Glaspie!
On July 25 1990! Gave the green light?
Interrogates the Iraqi high command to explain!
Iraqi military preparations in progress!
The massing of Iraqi troops near the border!
The American ambassador declared!
To her Iraqi interlocutor that Washington!
Inspired by friendship not by confrontation!
Has no opinion on the disagreement!
Between Kuwait and Iraq stating!
'we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts! '
Glaspie told Saddam Hussein that the U.S.
did not intend 'to start an economic war
against Iraq'. Saddam believed he had received
a diplomatic green light to invade Kuwait!
Is this why in spite of Iraqi saber-rattling?
Kuwait did not put military forces on alert!
Kuwait was caught with its pants down!
Decisive Iraqi victory in Blitzkrieg two days!
Bush playing off his Kuwaiti Iraqi pawns?
Saddam Hussein installed his cousin!
Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali) ?
Governor in Kuwait after (lightning war) !
Following in his dictator Aryan idol
(Evil Nazi Adolf Hitler’s) footsteps!
Blitzkrieg tactic successfully used!
Kuwait taken! Saudi Arabia Bahrain!
These countries just the beginning!
Saddam believed he would!
Build a Greater Empire than both!
Beginning from modern Iraq!
Blitzkrieg tactic against Poland
(attacked in September 1939)
Denmark (April 1940)
Norway (April 1940)
Belgium (May 1940)
Netherlands (May 1940)
Luxembourg (May 1940)
France (May 1940)
Yugoslavia (April 1941)
Greece (April 1941)
Great Britain saved from Nazi German
ground attack by the English Channel!
An island protected by the Royal Navy!
Saddam monster Mr Bush!
Decided to let continue
to rule during his watch?
After seizing Saddam by the throat!
Following Blitzkrieg Desert Storm!
In 1991! Bush pats pawn on his back!
Allows Saddam to rule as he likes?
Killing Shia or Kurds at will!
[It would be more than ten
long suffering years later! Before
the eventual invasion of Iraq! ]
The collective blood guilt?
[The innocent killed during this time?
Shia Kurd pawns sacrificed!
Who has this blood on their hands? ]
Tell me again George! What was your plan?
Why was it necessary to keep Saddam?
To keep this puzzle piece puppet in place!
New Pearl Harbour before New World Order!
Keep hiding shifting the pea in the cups!
The con artist slight of hand blame game!
Wrap it with credible spectacular presentation!
Justify response to craftily engineered incident!
Make a few movies control media cover tracks!
All it takes to manipulate people foreign domestic!
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The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
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We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.
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The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.
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A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
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But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.
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We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.
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We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
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