Pentagon Leaders Warn of Dangers for U.S. in Liberia

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WASHINGTON, July 24 Two days after Secretary of State Colin L. Powell called for the speedy deployment of troops to Liberia (news - web sites), the top two American military officers warned today of significant dangers facing United States military involvement there and called for a clear mission and a strategy for its successful end before any troops are sent.

The anarchy and violence in Liberia, they predicted, would not yield to a quick solution.

"It's not a pretty situation," Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during his reconfirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites). "It's not going to give way to any instant fix. Whatever the fix is going to be is going to have to be a long-term fix."

Two days ago, Mr. Powell acknowledged his frustration with the slow pace of the administration so far, telling The Washington Times that "we do have an interest in making sure that West Africa doesn't simply come apart."

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1. As we PUNT in Iraq

they offer this excuse?
"I'm concerned, like you," General Myers said, "that whatever we do, that we have a very clear mission, we understand the mission we're asked to do; that we have an idea of when the mission is going to be over in other words, when can we come out of the mission? And that we have sufficient force to deal with the security situation."



The Republicans forced us OUT of Somalia. The entire continent could be contained by now, prosperous, peaceful and orderly. We lesft Somalia because of 19 troops. 19 troops deemed too great a loss by a group of Republicans that stood shoulder to shoulder with the PResident on Irag where we have lost 150, can't get a consensus on oil exports due to the qustionable legalities of those contracts and have committed the American people to what will be no less than a decade with questionable outcomes.

Meanwhile, the illegal arms trade flourished in Africa. Bin Laden made a great deal of his money on tha arms trade. Al Queda got their chops in Africa and out of that came a well organized HIT on 3000 of our citizens on eptember 11, 2001.

What IDIOTS!

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