The emerging reports of the Obama Administration’s plan to keep 3,000 surprised many. Few expected the president to honor the Status of Forces Agreement’s December deadline, but a number of hawks were surprised at how low the figure was.
Of course the 3,000 figure was already misleading, not counting the untold thousands of military and State Department contractors that will also be fighting in Iraq. New reports coming out today suggest we may have underestimated the administration’s ability to deceive even more, revealing a plot that would keep large numbers of combat troops fighting in Iraq.
Fighting in Iraq, but not deployed there, as the report has the administration mulling a major deployment into neighboring Kuwait, “pre-positioned” along the border and ready to launch attacks inside Iraq at a moment’s notice.
Army Chief of Staff and former Iraq commander Gen. Ray Odierno had warned against keeping large numbers of troops inside Iraq, warning it would “provoke new claims of US occupation.” The occupation force may, instead, wait on the outskirts to reassert itself.
and how many are already there in that exact capacity ?
Americans are a waste of life. A drain on humanity. Listening to them, believing them, or worse becoming corrupted yourself by looking for always hidden non-uttered realities and purposes. You are destroying all civilisation along the way, fighting for worthless, unauthentic living. It beats terrorism by several multipliers, because where some terrorists reach a minority, you destroy life of the plurality in empty posturings, vague generalities, avoiding any and all accountability by falsifying or meaning-destroying any civil justice, freddom, or value of thruth and morals.. And when you claim, you won, it sounds of course hollow too in your own ears. Echoing in the empty chamber.
Exceedingly well stated. And if you wonder how it ends, the answer is that sooner — as with the Nazis — or later — as with the Romans or British — it ends in DEFEAT. Sometimes it's catastrophic defeat by military means, like the Nazis or Japanese, sometimes it's defeat from exhaustion and bankruptcy, the fate of the British Empire after ww's 1& 2, and the Soviets after WW2 and the Cold War. But the writing is on the wall for the US, which is being consumed from within by the same parasitic ruling class that has destroyed ***ALMOST*** every "successful" culture that went before.
Oddly — odd because the fate of cultures seems almost universally to be suicide by excess of ambition — the Chinese have enjoyed cultural stability long enough now to suggest that possibly they have found a way to avoid self-inflicted social destruction. Could it be that for 5000 years they have restricted themselves to minding their own business and have not engaged in military adventurism and imperial expansion? Is minding one's own business the key to long-term cultural stability and survival?
Obama and Odierno may think they can fool the American people by putting the troops in Kuwait but they will not fool the Arabs who do not want the Americans anywhere in the Middle East. If this story is true, expect the incident level of violence to increase in the relatively stable country of Kuwait. And once this happens and the Kuwaitis tell the Americans to leave, as they will, expect the Americans to tell the Kuwaitis to STFU because they're staying until the Americans decide differently.
Please stop referring to them as "contractors"! Call a spade a spade – they are mercenaries. We expect such sugar coating from the MSM, not from antiwar.com.
Occupying Kuwait would be an added bonus, however, the US doesn't have to pretend this way in order to continue its criminal charade of invasion and occupation. Obama's technique of rebranding the mercenaries with civilian sounding names was a fine one indeed and has the sheep fooled.
Why not? Let's build another military base in another country for what purpose and at what expense. If the purpose is to police the Iraqi people from a bordering land, that would constitute a violation of the UN charter. If it is to protect the Kuwaitis from possible attacks from Iraq, it constitutes another "rent your defence" from the USA. And if the US military doesn't get it that our bases all over the world are part of the enormous deficit problem, they should all get a crash course in Economics 101. Not one USA military should remain in Iraq beyond the date that Bush established for our departure. Over and out.
How's that "Hope and Change" working out for you, America?
Sounds to me more like "Bait and Switch".