Comments on: Supporting the [Enemy] Troops http://www.mahablog.com/2007/08/27/supporting-the-enemy-troops/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:21:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2007/08/27/supporting-the-enemy-troops/#comment-275688 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:56:11 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/08/27/supporting-the-enemy-troops/#comment-275688 What the defenders of Bush's war do is compare the known dollars in waste and fraud in Iraq against America's gross domestic product expressed in a percentage form so that billions of dollars in fraud appears as an infinitesimal amount. no big deal. just peanuts. btw.. Did they ever find that 8 billion dollars in cash that went missing in Baghdad early in the war? What the defenders of Bush’s war do is compare the known dollars in waste and fraud in Iraq against America’s gross domestic product expressed in a percentage form so that billions of dollars in fraud appears as an infinitesimal amount. no big deal. just peanuts.

btw.. Did they ever find that 8 billion dollars in cash that went missing in Baghdad early in the war?

]]> by: Pat http://www.mahablog.com/2007/08/27/supporting-the-enemy-troops/#comment-275682 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:17:26 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/08/27/supporting-the-enemy-troops/#comment-275682 #3. Maybe that was the master plan after all -- Saudi Arabia vs. Iran...Sunnis vs. Shiites. We slip out the backdoor, leaving them to "duke it out" to quote Bush. But then I must back away from that, given my tendency to assume intelligence and planning. When have we ever seen either? #3. Maybe that was the master plan after all — Saudi Arabia vs. Iran…Sunnis vs. Shiites. We slip out the backdoor, leaving them to “duke it out” to quote Bush. But then I must back away from that, given my tendency to assume intelligence and planning. When have we ever seen either?

]]> by: erinyes http://www.mahablog.com/2007/08/27/supporting-the-enemy-troops/#comment-275673 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:22:11 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/08/27/supporting-the-enemy-troops/#comment-275673 Asymetrical warfare consists of psyops and false flag operations. One common tactic is to arm both sides in hopes they will tear each other to shreads. Sometimes this tactic bites one in the ass. Asymetrical warfare consists of psyops and false flag operations.
One common tactic is to arm both sides in hopes they will tear each other to shreads. Sometimes this tactic bites one in the ass.

]]> by: Bonnie http://www.mahablog.com/2007/08/27/supporting-the-enemy-troops/#comment-275650 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:50:28 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/08/27/supporting-the-enemy-troops/#comment-275650 The lack of outrage at this fraud, waste, and abuse by the American people is truly astonishing . . . and disappointing. The lack of outrage at this fraud, waste, and abuse by the American people is truly astonishing . . . and disappointing.

]]> by: Pat http://www.mahablog.com/2007/08/27/supporting-the-enemy-troops/#comment-275588 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:33:35 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/08/27/supporting-the-enemy-troops/#comment-275588 Doesn't this also say that maintaining existing government infrastructure and service delivery organizations might have been smarter than leaving contractors open to being suckered so? What peace loving construction worker wants to be out and about working in the middle of a civil war where they might be indentified as being aligned with one faction or another? Disbanding the army was the act that now requires training of reluctant, marginally loyal (to anything led by US) Iraqis and has only led to Patraeus's perpetual training that is always making progress, invariably deemed inadequate, and without fail the reason why we must stay. The ineptitude in management of the war has been staggering yet the reins remain firmly in the hands of those who architected the mess and were forewarned of the problems that they handily dismissed as being insignificant. Where is accountability in this? Doesn’t this also say that maintaining existing government infrastructure and service delivery organizations might have been smarter than leaving contractors open to being suckered so?

What peace loving construction worker wants to be out and about working in the middle of a civil war where they might be indentified as being aligned with one faction or another?

Disbanding the army was the act that now requires training of reluctant, marginally loyal (to anything led by US) Iraqis and has only led to Patraeus’s perpetual training that is always making progress, invariably deemed inadequate, and without fail the reason why we must stay.

The ineptitude in management of the war has been staggering yet the reins remain firmly in the hands of those who architected the mess and were forewarned of the problems that they handily dismissed as being insignificant.

Where is accountability in this?

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