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jimservo
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14 Jan 2007, 7:15 pm

According to the Sunday Telegraph:

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The military mastermind of President George W Bush's new troop "surge" strategy for Iraq has hit out at signs that the Pentagon is watering down the proposal for political reasons.


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14 Jan 2007, 7:26 pm

We need a foreign legion of straight up gangsta killers aka mostly battle proven Africa soldiers (mostly Islamic) to be trained to police Iraq. They would get good pay and US citizenship.



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14 Jan 2007, 7:50 pm

I hate it when politics gets mixed in with the operation of a war.



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14 Jan 2007, 8:09 pm

It should be either a surge or no surge. In the worst case scenario, the difference there would be between "more deaths" and "no deaths". "Some additional deaths" (half as many as "more deaths"), which would be the case with the watered down surge is still bad, and comes with the possibility that it could end up being be as many as "more deaths," if not having a full surge would mean less protection for troops.



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17 Jan 2007, 4:47 pm

lowfreq50 wrote:
I hate it when politics gets mixed in with the operation of a war.


Are you saying nuke Iraq? :wink: Or that they should never have invaded in the first place?


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