Reply #42: Here's where failure to acknowledge casualties/reality causes defeat [View All]

Is There Another 'Tet' in Our Future?

The Pentagon, and this administration's compliant media,
has consistently told us our military is facing forces that
number from 5,000 to as high as 20,000 of the enemy in
Iraq. President Bush says there are a "small number
of insurgents opposing the election, because they fear
freedom." Compared with the statement by Iraqi
intelligence service director General Mohamed
Abdullah Shahwani, it is not hard to tell something is
seriously wrong here. "I think the resistance is bigger than
the US military in Iraq. I think the resistance is more
than 200,000 people."
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=12332

Shahwani said the number includes at least 40,000
(SpezNatz trained)hardcore fighters but rises to more than 200,000
members counting part-time fighters and
volunteers.

Cordesman says, "People are fed up after two years,
without improvement. People are fed up with no security,
no electricity, people feel they have to do something. The
army was hundreds of thousands. You'd expect some
veterans would join with their relatives; each one has sons
and brothers. What are you going to call the situation here
(in Baghdad) when 20 to 30 men can move around
with weapons and no one can get them in Adhamiyah, Dura
and Ghazaliya."

In late January of 2005, as in late January of 1968, we have
the bastard child called illegitimate war, sired by lies
and delivered from the womb of the mother called
the omnipotent State, with identical dynamics: a
psychopathic administration and war department, a military
led by political whores who would not give credence to
any intelligence that contradicts the psychobabble of
that administration, a growing resistance that has been
terribly underestimated, and a nation whose majority is asleep
at the wheel.

God save our fine soldiers, at least those who have seen
this war for what it is.

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