Ollie North: Bush, McCain & Lieberman Are WRONG-Surge Is NOT The Answer

[kpete]

More Troops = More Targets

by Oliver North
Posted Jan 05, 2007

For months, advisers to President George W. Bush have been trying to convince the commander in chief that more U.S. troops in Iraq will improve prospects for victory. Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), both recently returned from Iraq (and a courageous surprise stopover in Ramadi, capital of bloody Al Anbar Province) also support adding more American troops. Unfortunately, they are wrong.

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McCain and Lieberman talked to many of the same officers and senior NCOs I covered for FOX News during my most recent trip to Iraq. Not one of the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen or Marines I interviewed told me that they wanted more U.S. boots on the ground. In fact, nearly all expressed just the opposite: "We don't need more American troops, we need more Iraqi troops," was a common refrain. They are right.

The call for incrementally increasing U.S. troop strength in Iraq -- a "solution" that was first proffered last summer as the congressional election campaign heated up -- sounds eerily like Lyndon Johnson's plan to save Vietnam in the mid 1960s. Johnson saw "gradual escalation" as a way not to lose, and to avoid the unpleasant necessity of directly confronting North Vietnam. Regrettably, that also meant we could not win.

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A "surge" or "targeted increase in U.S. troop strength" or whatever the politicians want to call dispatching more combat troops to Iraq isn't the answer. Adding more trainers and helping the Iraqis to help themselves, is. Sending more U.S. combat troops is simply sending more targets.

more at:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=18797

[H2O Man]

1. I heard Ollie

had decided to oppose the "surge." How will that ass-kissing Sean Hannity react?

[JeffR]

2. First - and presumably last - time I agree with Ollie North

Yikes.

[madmunchie]

3. Un F***ing Believeable!

Hell just froze over!

[merh]

6. heh

oddly enough, that is what the title of an earlier thread on North's position was all about.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3050241

[JohnnyLib2]

4. Where am I?

Which alternate reality?

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Even this dope gets it. I think a pig just flew by..........

[jwirr]

7. Oh my God, I must be hallucinating! Ollie North? Will wonders

never cease.

[tanyev]

8. Hark! What's that sound?

Why, it's the sound of freepers imploding.

Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop.


:rofl:

[katsy]

9. Get out!

Impersonator. Really?

Why do I get the feeling that Iraq is doomed. A war ollie doesn't back?

:freak: