Charlie Reese made an important point in his column

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We give Americans an 18 week training course, then ship them into urban warfare. Weve given the Iraqis five years of training and theyre still not ready to take over?

Me thinks thats a convenient excuse. They want to stay there.


Excellent column here, http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese285.html

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1. Exactly! K & R

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2. Although the responses have been just plain overwhelming

Im gonna kick my own. This is an important column that just crucifies every talking point the reicht has made.
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What Is the Mission?
by Charley Reese

President Bush teared up on Memorial Day and said we must complete the mission in Iraq to honor the 18,000 wounded and 2,400-plus dead.

Well, I have a question. What is the mission?

Is it to overthrow Saddam Hussein? He's been overthrown and is awaiting execution by a kangaroo court we selected to do the hit.

Is it to allow the Iraqi people to hold elections? They've held three elections – one for an interim government, one for a Constitution, and one for a permanent government, which is now in place except for two Cabinet positions.

Oh, I forgot that when the president was selling this war, he said the mission was to disarm Saddam because he had all those awful weapons of mass destruction. Well, of course, they didn't exist, and now the president doesn't talk about them.

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5. You're not allowed to know what the mission is

If Bush won't tell Cindy Sheehan, Mr. Reese, what call do you think you have to getting a straight answer out of this administration? But rest assured that we need to throw several thousand more bodies on top of the ones already lost so that the first ones didn't die in vain. It's only the last few hundred who die in vain, and as long as three or four more bodies stack up each day, we'll never get to the point where all is vanity, as Ecclesiastes might say.

That explain it for you?

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3. either that (the military doesn't want to leave as you said)

OR 18 weeks of training isn't adequate preparation for what the soldiers are facing. I'd guess it's some of both.

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4. it is great KICKED AND REC n/t

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6. Iraqi troops will never fight to support a U.S. Puppet government

Its just that simple.

They NEVER will do that.

The "Iraqification" of the war will work just as well as the "Vietnamization" of the Viet Nam war....not at all.

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7. I still find it amazing

That for the past five years, I've been agreeing more and more with ol' Charley. Hell, six years ago I was writing him off as another boring neo-con hack. But apparently something about the Bush misadministration has really put a burr under Charley's saddle, and he's been letting Bush and the neo-cons have with both barrels on a consistent basis.