U.S. delivers 1st grim outlook on Iraq security

[0rion]

BY KEN DILANIAN
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS

MUNTHERIA BORDER CROSSING, Iraq -- In an uncommonly downbeat assessment of Iraq's security challenges, U.S. Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer told local officials Monday that it will take at least a year for the country to hire, equip and train enough police and border guards to meet its needs.

US delivers 1st grim outlook on Iraq security

[arcane1]

1. police and border guards...

isn't that something the Iraqi people should be in charge of? The laws are theirs, after all...

[bluestateguy]

2. When can we fire Paul "the bureaucrat" Bremer

What a complete moron!

[kskiska]

4. I don't think we'll need to fire him

He wants out of there pretty badly, ASAP.

[Mari333]

3. In the meantime, thousands of guards and reservists

are being sent , and re sent, with severe and horrendous medical problems, some being sent who tried to commit suicide, with X rays and records conveniently lost, and troop morale is so low there isnt an upside
This is destroying what little we had left of the Guard and Reserves.
they wont be re enlisting, and many are just refusing to go.
Bremer can kiss my ass, by the way.
http://www.bringthemhomenow.com

I smell a draft

http://www.bushdraft.com

[Palacsinta]

7. Hey Mari!

Thanks for the info on MFSO. I contacted them......they contacted me!
My foster kid leaves April 13th for Basic. I'm glad to have the support you provided!!

[saigon68]

5. Viceroy L. Paul Bremer hiding behind hundreds of paid mercenaries

Said "We are here on a Crusade to turn this place into the 51st State of the United States of Amerika".

Iraqi resistance forces, promptly put as bullet through the head of a 18 years old kid from Iowa and blew a 19 year old PFC from New Jersey into hundreds of pieces, a Sergeant from Oregon also had both eyes shot out.

At a board of director's meeting at Halliburton, champagne was served with the usual pheasant under glass

[plcdude]

6. crusade

enough said

[teryang]

8. Foreign policy failure

...in a year it will be worse not better, unless we have left.

[saigon68]

9. Unfortunately they'll be there

until the oil runs out

[DulceDecorum]

14. What oil are you talking about?

01-12-03
Pumping oil too quickly can upset the balance, leading to more gas and water migrating into the wells and ultimately making extraction of oil uneconomical. Iraq's problems were well known to the United States before the war. The Energy Infrastructure Planning Group, set up by senior Bush administration officials in September 2002 to plan for the oil industry in the event of war, learned that Iraq was reinjecting crude oil to maintain pressure in the Kirkuk field.

Iraqis acknowledged it was a poor practice, said an administration expert involved with the group, and as the main war wound down the Iraqis were unequivocal that that practice had to stop and right away. But it did not.
“The amount of oil being reinjected is now 150,000 to 250,000 bpd, down from as much as 400,000 bpd last summer,” McKee said, but he added that he had never encountered such a practice in his lengthy career in the oil industry.
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/ntm40475.htm

In Iraq, they are pumping oil INTO the bloody wells, not OUT of them.
I think it is time to come home.

[TrueStory]

15. They pump water into the wells

and they can sell the Oil on the black market. 400,000 x 30 = 12 million dollars per day - good business for Halliburton.

[Just Me]

10. This is so weird. The front page of my local liberal NP was positive.

It had a picture of Iraqi men committed to pulling their country together and caused me mixed feelings. I want success for those people. I wish I had confidence that this leadership was earnest in its pledge to the Iraqi people. Of course, I have none since this leadership has betrayed its own people. Shit.

God help us get these predatory provocators out of leadership. They suck!!!

[osaMABUSh]

11. just 100 days till we hand over power - that'll work real well

[bpilgrim]

12. wink-wink

:evilgrin:

peace

[OneBlueSky]

13. just being the good servent and setting the table . . .

comments like this -- and we'll see plenty more -- are merely part of the campaign to demonstrate that, no indeed, the U.S. cannot leave Iraq because, well, we're just needed there so much! . . . thus establishing the various cover stories for a major U.S. presence in the country for . . . well . . . forever . . .

[Kool Kitty]

16. Do you notice how this story changes every time they

talk to Bremer? First it's fine, then it's not; first, everything's getting better, then, well, maybe not better; first, we are giving up control, now, looks like we have to find a way to maintain military control. Sheesh.