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OT: Military weakened, part XXXI
OT: Military weakened, part XXXI
The following was published by that noted commie/liberal rag the MARINE CORPS
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McCaffrey, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran who retired in 1996 as head of
U.S. Southern Command and then served as President Bill Clinton's drug czar,
wrote the eight-page memo based on a March 9-16 trip to Iraq and Kuwait. The
memo lists over 65 U.S. and allied officials that McCaffrey talked to during his
trip. They include Gen. David Petraeus, the new commander of Multi-National
Forces - Iraq, and Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, who commands Multi-National Corps -
Iraq, as well as virtually every other senior U.S. or allied military figure
there.
His view that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war is at odds with that expressed
by incoming U.S. Central Command chief Adm. William Fallon, who told CNN March
27 that he didn't think Iraq was in a civil war.
Three million Iraqis, including many of the country's educated elite, have fled
the country, McCaffrey notes.
In the land they left behind, the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki "has little credibility among the Shia populations from which it
emerged," writes McCaffrey. "It is despised by the Sunni as a Persian surrogate.
It is believed untrustworthy and incompetent by the Kurds.
"There is no function of government that operates effectively across the nation
- not health care, not justice, not education, not transportation, not labor and
commerce, not electricity, not oil production. There is no province in the
country in which the government has dominance …. No Iraqi government official,
coalition soldier, diplomat, reporter, foreign NGO, nor contractor can walk the
streets of Baghdad, nor Mosul, nor Kirkuk, nor Basra, nor Tikrit, nor Najaf, nor
Ramadi - without heavily armed protection."
* w w w .marinecorpstimes . com /news/2007/03/military Iraq McCaffrey 070327/
The following was published by that noted commie/liberal rag the MARINE CORPS
TIMES:
------------------------------
McCaffrey, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran who retired in 1996 as head of
U.S. Southern Command and then served as President Bill Clinton's drug czar,
wrote the eight-page memo based on a March 9-16 trip to Iraq and Kuwait. The
memo lists over 65 U.S. and allied officials that McCaffrey talked to during his
trip. They include Gen. David Petraeus, the new commander of Multi-National
Forces - Iraq, and Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, who commands Multi-National Corps -
Iraq, as well as virtually every other senior U.S. or allied military figure
there.
His view that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war is at odds with that expressed
by incoming U.S. Central Command chief Adm. William Fallon, who told CNN March
27 that he didn't think Iraq was in a civil war.
Three million Iraqis, including many of the country's educated elite, have fled
the country, McCaffrey notes.
In the land they left behind, the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki "has little credibility among the Shia populations from which it
emerged," writes McCaffrey. "It is despised by the Sunni as a Persian surrogate.
It is believed untrustworthy and incompetent by the Kurds.
"There is no function of government that operates effectively across the nation
- not health care, not justice, not education, not transportation, not labor and
commerce, not electricity, not oil production. There is no province in the
country in which the government has dominance …. No Iraqi government official,
coalition soldier, diplomat, reporter, foreign NGO, nor contractor can walk the
streets of Baghdad, nor Mosul, nor Kirkuk, nor Basra, nor Tikrit, nor Najaf, nor
Ramadi - without heavily armed protection."
* w w w .marinecorpstimes . com /news/2007/03/military Iraq McCaffrey 070327/
