Comments on: Strategy versus politics http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:58:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-18106 Erich Vieth Tue, 06 May 2008 19:05:20 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-18106 The Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Max Boot claims that both the decrease and the increase in troop deaths prove that the "Surge" Is a success. http://thinkprogress.org/ The Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Max Boot claims that both the decrease and the increase in troop deaths prove that the “Surge” Is a success.

http://thinkprogress.org/

]]> By: Tim Hogan http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17649 Tim Hogan Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:04:52 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17649 We've called this shot before, why is no one listening? http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/11/09/real-terror-is-fear/ We’ve called this shot before, why is no one listening?

http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/11/09/real-terror-is-fear/

]]> By: Tim Hogan http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17648 Tim Hogan Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:03:27 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17648 It's not a war, and since the original use of force resolution was directed towards toppling Saddam, why are we still there? Congress needs to get some guts and stop funding Bush's public slush fund for for neocons, oil companies and military contractors. McCain is more of the same with all the lobbyists he has on staff. It’s not a war, and since the original use of force resolution was directed towards toppling Saddam, why are we still there?

Congress needs to get some guts and stop funding Bush’s public slush fund for for neocons, oil companies and military contractors. McCain is more of the same with all the lobbyists he has on staff.

]]> By: grumpypilgrim http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17624 grumpypilgrim Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:42:51 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17624 Indeed, so, Edgar. That is one reason why we must stop calling it "war": http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1215/. Indeed, so, Edgar. That is one reason why we must stop calling it “war”: http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1215/.

]]> By: Edgar Montrose http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17612 Edgar Montrose Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:54:46 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17612 The aforementioned profiteering notwithstanding, there is a simpler, more insidious reason that the "war" in Iraq continues: the Administration is using the "time of war" argument as justification for its claims of extraordinary Executive powers (the Constitution contains exceptions for "time of war" that the Administration is exploiting and possibly abusing). Allow that "time of war" standing to be jeopardized, and the Executive powers are jeopardized, as well. The aforementioned profiteering notwithstanding, there is a simpler, more insidious reason that the “war” in Iraq continues: the Administration is using the “time of war” argument as justification for its claims of extraordinary Executive powers (the Constitution contains exceptions for “time of war” that the Administration is exploiting and possibly abusing). Allow that “time of war” standing to be jeopardized, and the Executive powers are jeopardized, as well.

]]> By: grumpypilgrim http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17595 grumpypilgrim Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:28:08 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17595 Further to Tim's comment, I think it's very revealing that the only two industries that have raked in record profits during the Bush/Cheney administration have been the oil industry and the "defense" industry -- the former haunts of Bush and Cheney, respectively. Such an amazing coincidence.... Further to Tim’s comment, I think it’s very revealing that the only two industries that have raked in record profits during the Bush/Cheney administration have been the oil industry and the “defense” industry — the former haunts of Bush and Cheney, respectively. Such an amazing coincidence….

]]> By: Tim Hogan http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17575 Tim Hogan Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:03:54 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/12/strategy-versus-politics/#comment-17575 Dagumit! I was just writing about this! Think about it, we've lost over 4,000. We've had more than 20,000 wounded. There has been no reconstruction of electricity, water, basic civil society in Iraq. We keep using supplemental appropriations to fund the "war" (silly 'Mission Accomplished!') and can now figure exactly the cost of each casualty. In five years (longer than WWII) the only people which have profited were the Bushies's fatcat contributors, chiefly among the oil industry. What Cheney has been hiding all these years from us hasn't been a secret energy policy, it's been the fact that the oil companies were the frst to know we were going into Iraq and how they would profit and what they each had to kickback to the GOP in money for the elections and pet causes of Bush, Cheney and the neocons! I say it here and now, no more lives for oil! We would not stop "funding the troops" if all appropriations for the war were insiide the regular appropriations process, and there would be some accountability (not a word used by the Bushies!). Don't give 'em another dime until we all know who got what and when! Dagumit! I was just writing about this! Think about it, we’ve lost over 4,000. We’ve had more than 20,000 wounded. There has been no reconstruction of electricity, water, basic civil society in Iraq.

We keep using supplemental appropriations to fund the “war” (silly ‘Mission Accomplished!’) and can now figure exactly the cost of each casualty. In five years (longer than WWII) the only people which have profited were the Bushies’s fatcat contributors, chiefly among the oil industry.

What Cheney has been hiding all these years from us hasn’t been a secret energy policy, it’s been the fact that the oil companies were the frst to know we were going into Iraq and how they would profit and what they each had to kickback to the GOP in money for the elections and pet causes of Bush, Cheney and the neocons!

I say it here and now, no more lives for oil!

We would not stop “funding the troops” if all appropriations for the war were insiide the regular appropriations process, and there would be some accountability (not a word used by the Bushies!). Don’t give ‘em another dime until we all know who got what and when!

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