US army not to withdraw from Iraq after power transfer: spokesman (Kimmitt

[UpInArms]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/13/content_1522670.htm

BAGHDAD, June 12 (Xinhuanet) -- US forces will not withdraw from Iraqi cities such as this capital of Baghdad after the occupation ends on June 30, a senior US military spokesman said on Saturday.

"I don't think you are going to see much difference on July 15 than you saw on January 15," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told a press conference.

He said the multinational force will remain in cities until Iraqi forces were able to handle the security.

"We will not be pulling out of the cities. We will not be relocating. We certainly would like to see more and more Iraqi security forces at the lead," he stressed.

Meanwhile, Kimmitt said the "progress" made on the ground in the restive town of Fallujah was discouraging.

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Ah, Kimmitt "if you don't like watching women and children die, change the channel" http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0415/p01s02-woiq.html - "progress" is discouraging?

What "progress"?

[Miss Authoritiva]

1. Please: let's not destroy the meaning of every word.

"US forces will not withdraw from Iraqi cities such as this capital of Baghdad after the occupation ends on June 30, a senior US military spokesman said on Saturday."

If the forces are still in Iraq, then the occupation is still in force.

[gulliver]

9. The occupation's new clothes.

Most of the CPA are moving into the new U.S. "embassy," in Iraq, the largest U.S. embassy in the world. The new interim government will have "sovereignty." And we are going to "end" the occupation while increasing the number of American troops to 145,000.

It's just breathtaking.

[librechik]

2. what a shocker!

me, whatever they say, I just figure out the opposite and work from there.

[oldhat]

3. Bush v. Kerry

As in, elect Kerry.

[goforit]

4. DUH!!!!

LOL!!!

[Old and In the Way]

5. It's all about the oil, rebuild contracts, and bases. nt

[amber dog democrat]

6. Where there is oil, the US can't be far away.

We won't leave until we are shown the door and tossed out.

[daleo]

7. Here is Kimmit's progress since Jan 15, 2004

333 dead U.S. soldiers
3 dead U.K soldiers
17 dead Other Coalition soldiers
353 in total.

I would guess you could multiply that by about 10 at least to get an estimate of Iraqi dead, so call it 3500.

U.S. wounded in action, about 2500 at least. Probably ten times that many Iraqis, so lets say 25000.

And I suppose about 20 billion dollars down the drain.

[many a good man]

8. It's the bases, stupid

The US must secure the world's oil supply by building and maintaining bases there for at least the next 100 years. Bushcheney has blown it badly by, ahem, wearing out our welcome before we could even open one damn base.

[lebkuchen]

10. July 15 is when the 1AD is supposed to redeploy home

Promises, promises.

The papers don't say where "home" is. The Bushies are working hard to close 1AD/1ID bases in Germany. Will they pack out 1AD families w/o their sponsor, like they said they wouldn't?

Then it's 90 days before 1AD soldiers can separate, unless they get scheduled to redeploy back to either Iraq or Afghanistan, forcing them to stay in the military. Should be an interesting summer.

[Disturbed]

11. The bullet hits the bone....

Full Sovereignty?
Throughout the spring, as hundreds died in the spiraling conflict, as Regime bosses applied their hardcore "anti-terrorist" tortures to innocent bystanders raked up in their occupation nets, as Regime mouthpieces prated endlessly of "liberation" and "sovereignty," Bush viceroy Paul Bremer was quietly signing a series of edicts that will give the United States effective control over the military, ministries -- and money -- of any Iraqi government, for years to come, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Bremer has placed U.S.-appointed "commissions" made up of Americans and local puppets throughout Iraqi government agencies; the ministers supposedly in charge weren't even told of the edicts. These boards "will serve multiyear terms and have significant authority to run criminal investigations, award contracts, direct troops and subpoena citizens," the Journal reports. Any new Iraqi government "will have little control over its armed forces, lack the ability to make or change laws and be unable to make major decisions within specific ministries without tacit U.S. approval, say U.S. officials."


Earlier Bremer edicts laid the Iraqi economy wide open to ruthless exploitation by Bush-approved foreign "investors"; dominance of such key sectors as banking, communications -- and energy -- is already well advanced. The latest dictates aim to ensure that this organized looting goes on, no matter what kind of makeshift "interim government" the United Nations manage to piece together. Bush's plans to build a Saddamite fortress embassy in Baghdad and 14 permanent military bases around the country are designed to provide the knee-breaking "security" for these lucrative arrangements



http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/05/21/120.html


* Now that the Kurds have been stabbed in the back again will they join in the July Uprising?