Not Coming?
Gates Said to Oppose Force Shift to Afghanistan
"BAGHDAD, Dec. 5 — Senior Pentagon and military officials said Wednesday that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates had decided against a proposal to shift Marine Corps forces from Iraq to take the lead in American operations in Afghanistan.
Mr. Gates told top Marine Corps officials and his senior aides that the situation in western Iraq, where the Marines now operate in Anbar Province, remained too volatile to contemplate such a significant change in how the ground combat mission in Iraq is shared by the Army and the Marine Corps.
WTF? I thought the surge cleaned all that up? Oooooooh!
That broad message was underscored by Mr. Gates on Wednesday as he made his sixth visit to Iraq as defense secretary. During an evening news conference, Mr. Gates said the mission facing American, Iraqi and allied forces was to “work together not only to sustain the momentum of recent months, but to build on it.”
Whatever, Gates!
We aren't going to withdrawing any troops anywhere, are we?
Gen. James T. Conway, the Marine Corps commandant, added:
"[That’s not to say that in the future, were there additional U.S. troops needed, that we would or would not be called — that would be a determination made on what the nature of the request was at the time and what the availability of forces were between, probably, Army and Marines.”
Translation: We are going to NEED a DRAFT!!!
Ready to go to Afghanistan, kids?
When word first surfaced of the Marine Corps proposal in October, some officials in the Air Force expressed private fears that its mission in Afghanistan could be ended if the mission went to the Marines, who deploy with their own tactical fighter and attack combat aircraft.
Army officials acknowledged that the idea could streamline their force planning, by giving them only one mission to fulfill — although some Army officers also expressed wariness that the Marines were trying to move from an unpopular war, Iraq, to Afghanistan, which has more popular support.
Thus the idea was viewed by many military analysts as part of the maneuvering among the four armed services for priority combat missions, and the requisite share of the budget.
Yup, WAR is BIG $$$$$$$$!!!!!!
Why would you ever want to stop it?
There is widespread concern among Pentagon and military officials that the high level of military spending approved by Congress since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, may not be sustained by a nation that may move toward isolationism after Iraq.
Do YOU UNDERSTAND the IMPLICATION in those statements, reader?!
Why do I INSTANTLY THINK FALSE-FLAG, BLACK-OP "TERROR" EVENT when I reread the paragraph?
I thought America was a DEMOCRACY with CIVILIAN RULE?
And here the military is SCHEMING to KEEP THE WARS and $$ FLOWING?
CUI BONO from a "NEW TERROR ATTACK," readers?
And all the while we are being sold SURGE SUCCESS?
WHAT the FUCK!!!!!?????
I AM OUTRAGED at the MILITARY FOR THIS!
WAR-MAKING, WAR-MONGERS!!
Yeah, we aren't going into Iran because the military is stretched.
BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!
Marine units train to fight in an air-ground task force. The term refers to a Marine deployment that arrives in a combat zone complete with its own headquarters, infantry combat troops, armored and transport vehicles, attack and transport helicopters, and attack jets for close-air support, as well as logistics and support personnel."
And LOOK at all the SHIT they bring with them!
No wonder the world hates to see us coming at them!
Oh, yeah, and ABOUT 9/11!!!!
Gone
Suicide Blast Kills 13 in Afghanistan
"KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 5 — A suicide bomber smashed his car into a bus carrying Afghan Army personnel here in the capital early Wednesday, killing 13 people.
The chief military spokesman, Gen. Zaher Azimi, visited the scene and said the dead were seven army officers in the bus and six civilians on the street. Among the civilians killed were four children, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
An additional 17 people were wounded, 8 soldiers and 9 civilians, hospital officials said.
The car bombing was the second in two days, and occurred as Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the first bombing, on Tuesday morning, in which a suicide bomber crashed into a two-car NATO convoy on the Kabul airport road, wounding 22 Afghan civilians on a bus and on the street.
It was not clear if the bombings had been timed to Mr. Gates’s visit, because several hundred suicide bombings have occurred in Afghanistan in the past two years. But signs suggest that insurgents and their allies in Al Qaeda have timed bombings to official visits. A bomber blew himself up at the entrance to Bagram Air Base when Vice President Dick Cheney stayed there in February.
Whatever! That's all regurgitated Zionist propaganda!
Especially the Cheney false-flag affair!
As if anyone could ever have sympathy for that MASS-MURDERING, WAR-CRIMINAL reptile!
The attack on Wednesday occurred just before 7 a.m. in Chilsitoon, a district in southern Kabul. A Toyota hit the bus, which was picking up personnel for work. Most of the wounded civilians were shopkeepers and bystanders.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for the bomb attack. He said the bomber was Abdul Rahman of Khost, an eastern province. He denied that there had been any civilian casualties.
“We are always requesting civilians not to be close to official convoys or vehicles,” he said.
No U.S. air raids yesterday, huh? NO Taliban killed?
What the hell is going on in Afghanistan, anyway?
If it is so quiet, MSM, why does AmeriKa need MORE TROOPS!?
And you don't see Pakistan in my posts today, either!
Pffffffffffffffttttttttt!!!!!
