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The military thinker for Kagan e.a. and the proposed and by Bush implemented ‘surge’ plan for victory in Iraq.
“The surge belongs to the neocons and in particular to Frederick Kagan… Kagan turned to former Army Vice Chief of Staff Jack Keane, a retired four-star general who still has street cred at the Pentagon, to help flesh out the plan and then sell it to the White House.”
Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.) served in the U.S.
Army for 37 years and was the Army's vice
chief of staff from 1999 to 2003. (Frontline)
“I think there was a sense that the operation in Guantanamo was a solid operation on every level: the quality of the detention center itself, how it was being run, its efficiency in taking care of prisoners — it was under a huge scrutiny in terms of oversight — and then the quality of the interrogation and how that complemented each other, and the fact that there was good information coming out of Guantanamo.”
● Time To “Draw a Line in the Sand” on Iraq ◊ by clammyc
● The Inexorable Logic of Impeachment ◊ comment by idredit
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You see, the name of the product is Explorer, which is a direct translation of the Arabic name. The learned scholars of the commission rightly noted that the letter X in the name was a cross, and this aroused their delicate Islamic sensibilities and they banned the registration.
Those Who Guard Our Morals From Hidden Dangers
BTW this is the nation ally dictating to George Bush (VP Cheney) to redefine the Iraqi mission into protection of the Sunni population and oppose Iranian led Shia influence in Baghdad.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Apparently, the KK connection is having communication problems…reading from the same book, but not on the same page, as it were.
Kagan on the surge: 12.4.06:
Kagan on the surge II: 12.27.07:
Hmmmmmm….wonder if he really has any idea what he’s talking about?…nahhhhh…a rhetorical question, the answer is painfully obvious.
H/T to idredit
John McCain: The truth.
it makes you wonder….who really is the pro in this situation…surely not our admin..at least anything we’ve seen..
good to see your reports Oui…take care.
wado
Short, but I hit recommend anyway because we need to know who the players are.
Thanks for posting this.
evenin’, nc :^)
Oh dear…for the love of humanity…. please reconsider your feedback about the length of Oui’s diary. ;^)
I’m thinkin’ he very likely expended a tremendous amount of energy in scaling back his original version, while limiting the number of links. (seriously) :^)
g’night,
-A
Keane needs to be exposed.
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Thanks Oui – it’s always so good to hear your voice. (It still makes me smile whenever I see the “scary dot”…not to mention, you succeeded in bringing infidel out from the gator-eatin’ backwoods.) :^)
g’night
-A
LMAO…actually, I moved out of the backwoods, into the heart of gator land…
I’m working on the flood gate project all across the everglades….
I’m gonna find the grand-pappy of them all…LOL
and whatta tale that will be…hoooooooo laaawwd
peace
Shit….you’ve given me the impression that you’re the grand-pappy of them all. ;^)
Sounds like you’re doing some really rewarding work, IP – good on you!
Nice to “see” ya around –
g’night (for real this time)
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Defense Planning Guidance for the Fiscal Years 1994-1999
“Paul Wolfowitz, under secretary of defense for policy (the Pentagon’s third-highest ranking civilian), takes the lead in drafting an internal set of military guidelines, called a ‘Defense Planning Guidance,’ which is routinely prepared every few years by the Defense Department.
“Wolfowitz’s draft argues for a new military and political strategy in a post-Cold War world. Containment, it says, is a relic of the Cold War. America should talk loudly, carry a big stick, and use its military power to preempt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). And if America has to act alone, so be it.
“Controversy erupts after the draft is leaked to the press. The White House orders Defense Secretary Cheney to rewrite it. In the new draft there is no mention of preemption or U.S. willingness to act alone.” Source: Frontline.
Ullman, Harlan, and Wade, James P. Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology, [1996].
● The Fog of War Talk ◊ by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) Jan. 17 – “I will do everything I can to stop the president’s policy as he outlined it Wednesday night,” said Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican and potential 2008 presidential candidate, who joined Democrats at a press conference on the resolution.
“I think it is dangerously irresponsible,” Hagel said.
Even as skeptical Republicans were summoned to private meetings with Bush and national security adviser Stephen Hadley at the White House, Bush’s aides made clear that the Capitol Hill challenge would be met aggressively by the administration.
Presidential spokesman Tony Snow said resolutions passed by Congress will not affect Bush’s decision-making. “The president has obligations as a commander in chief,” he said. “And he will go ahead and execute them.”
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., a chief author of the Senate resolution, said it says “we do not support increased troops, deeper military involvement” and calls for shifting the mission of U.S. troops from combat to training, counterterrorism and protecting Iraq’s territorial integrity.
He said it also calls for “the greater engagement of other countries in the region in the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq.”
CLINTON: Start Pulling Out of Baghdad
While on a weekend trip to Iraq, Sen HillaryRodham Clinton talks to Lt. Gen Ray Odierno.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
WASHINGTON D.C. (Washington Post) – For the Republicans, there are two ways out of Iraq. They can either go out like Eisenhower or like Nixon.
As the first Republican to occupy the White House since the coming of the New Deal, Dwight Eisenhower could have chosen to divide the public and try to roll back Franklin Roosevelt’s handiwork. In fact, he didn’t give that option a moment’s consideration. Social Security and unions, he concluded, were here to stay; any attempt to undo them, he wrote, would consign the Republicans to permanent minority status. Ike also ended the Korean War without attacking Democrats in the process.
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A Nixonian perspective also acknowledges that the war cannot be won but believes that blame for the defeat can still, somehow, be placed on the Democrats. If only the Democrats can be held responsible for defunding the troops, if only the U.S. presence in Iraq can be prolonged until it falls to the next administration (which may be Democratic) to end it, if only enough Republicans on the Hill can be dissuaded from voting with the Democrats’ attempts to rein in the war, if only the surge engenders some wild and crazy antiwar demonstrations, then maybe, just maybe, there’s a way to keep the war going without destroying the GOP. These options may seem a bit far-fetched, but who believes that Karl Rove hasn’t at least thought about them in his more contemplative moments?
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."