Newt: "This could be a 30-70 year war"

[kuozzman]

Just said it on FOX.

I'll answer this question before it's asked:

"Why are you watching FAUX?"

I'm occasionally watch FOX or other corporate media networks b/c I like to know what kind of crap they are saying that a lot of my family/friends listen to, so I can tell them how absurd it is.

[rkc3]

1. Looks like my son will know all the words to "Oh, Canada!"

[SmartBomb]

31. Hmm... Maybe this is why they're trying to bankrupt the country

so nobody can afford to take their kids (fodder) out of the country.

[jdj]

2. perfect.

exaggerate it so bad that when it comes back to being "only" 4 or 5 more years, it won't feel so bad.

This happened to me once when I was a forklift driver, I backed into and knocked over $300 worth of covers and casings. When my Japanese boss wrote a note to the day supervisor, he said I totaled $3000 worth of them. When my boss found out the real total, he was so relieved he wasn't even mad at me.

[Stephanie]

4. He's not kidding

The neo-cons have been talking about a 50 years war for a long time. They started this talk way before the Towers came down, BTW.

[jdj]

13. are you suggesting Newt Gingrich actually told the truth about something?

No way.

If they really were planning this, they certainly wouldn't be talking about it out loud.

[librechik]

17. makes me nervous--what is the REAL agenda here?

becasue I know they only lie, so...??

[Hippo_Tron]

20. You're right, it's probably more like 150-200 years

We've gotta have a Bush dynasty, you know.

[oneighty]

35. I wonder

1,300,000,000 Chinese people all wishing for better living through earth's natural resources.

300,000,000 Americans all hoping to maintain better living through earth's natural resources.

I am an old man I do not expect to see the end of this but I bet it will not be a hundred years. Much less I am thinking.

180

[Stephanie]

21. they have been talking about it, writing papers about it, all in the open

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=110&topic_id=80&mesg_id=80

[jdj]

26. that's different than selling it to the public at large.

I stand by my original assertion.

The only reason they are saying this crap out loud now is that they thought Kerry would win, but Bush was able to swindle his way back into the white house and now this rests squarely on his shoulders.

They know we won't get out for at least 3 or 4 years and are looking for a way to make this look better than it should. Strategy is one thing, and spin is another; strategy is the secret plan and spin is what they use in public to sell the secret plan.

There is no way they would be transparent about any real plans they may have.

[Stephanie]

40. They have been saying it all along

The neo-cons won. Powell is out. Uncooperative CIA people are out. State is being purged. Wolfowitz announces he's staying. The neo-cons are in charge, and they have been saying all along that it will be a 50-years war. They have no intention of stopping with Iraq.

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/03/sprj.irq.woolsey.world.war/

Ex-CIA director: U.S. faces 'World War IV'
From Charles Feldman and Stan Wilson
CNN
Thursday, April 3, 2003 Posted: 5:02 PM EST (2202 GMT)

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former CIA Director James Woolsey said Wednesday the United States is engaged in World War IV, and that it could continue for years.

In the address to a group of college students, Woolsey described the Cold War as the third world war and said "This fourth world war, I think, will last considerably longer than either World Wars I or II did for us. Hopefully not the full four-plus decades of the Cold War."

Woolsey has been named in news reports as a possible candidate for a key position in the reconstruction of a postwar Iraq.

He said the new war is actually against three enemies: the religious rulers of Iran, the "fascists" of Iraq and Syria, and Islamic extremists like al Qaeda.

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[Sterling]

43. Um google PNAC.

Then readjust to the real world, it's a trip.

[Ilsa]

45. Looks like the Dept of Low Expectations has a new Director!

I swear, Cmdr Bunnypants must put these yahoos up for this schtick so he can sort out who would make the best Secretary of Disinformation and Low Expectations.

[DireStrike]

3. What war, the war between the parties or the war on terror? Or Iraq?

If its the "war on terror" that could make it hard for him to reach his stated goal of a hypothetical presidential run: winning the war on terror.

[robertpaulsen]

14. Or how about the War on Drugs?

That's already over 30 years old, so 30-70 sounds like a good guess before we finally throw in the towel and decriminalize or legalize.

[DireStrike]

22. Oh yeah, he didn't say that we'd "WIN"...

I guess I'd have to add the war on drugs to that column.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. newt is an adulterous hypocrite

never forget that-he has zero credibility

[musette_sf]

6. he wishes (eom)

[tk2kewl]

7. more than enough time to totally destroy the government

taxes pay for war and nothing else PERIOD

(all according to plan)

[arcane1]

8. a 30-year cash cow for the M.I.C.

would be more accurate

:puke:

[gnofg]

9. we're never leaving-n/t

[xray s]

10. at some point, even the dumbest of the dumb have to wake up

A 70 year war. RIGHT!

I really, really, really hope Newtie follows through on his thought about running in '08.

Oh...and if your trolling here Newt, make Alan Keyes your running mate. Please?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. In response to all the what war posts... the war to "own" the planet.

[MisterP]

15. the wicked peasants of Asia and South America are rebelling against their

appointed place in the glorious world plantation and are forming alliances against Thatcherite neocolonialism.
They must be crushed!

[Emillereid]

12. They are using 1984 as their playbook?

With whom are we/they at war -- I don't have any enemies.

[purduejake]

16. The one superpower left...

can't take over a small country that has been under sanctions for a decade in under 30 years. WTF.

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[DELUSIONAL]

19. How long does is take to loot Iraq's oil -- 30-70 years?

Even if all the Iraqis bowed down to King George -- I doubt that would make a difference -- Georgie Porgy didn't have peace plans for Iraq nor did he envision an ending because he has no intention of leaving Iraq ever and the children today will be fighting tomorrow -- that is if he allows them to live.

[roguevalley]

24. newt wants to be president so he's got to undermine jeb. what

better way than to whip up anti-war feeling against bush that will translate to his brother?

[stevedeshazer]

36. *ding* you win

Republican Primary 2008.

I smell something.

[Lori Price CLG]

23. Nope, not if they lose in the second American Revolution...

Then the Red State whackjobs will have to crawl back to their holes, from whence they came... :)

Lori Price

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

25. How can it be a long war

with the rapture just around the corner? Man, these republicans sure are a confusing bunch...

I think I'll go listen to my "Songs in the Key of W" CD again, just to be reassured by GWB's overwhelmingly lack of interest in the proper use of the English...

[ThoughtCriminal]

27. Thanks for the Ammo Newt

see you in the primaries!

[tridim]

28. So what did Zell have to say about Newt's plan?

I'm sure he's just fine with whatever Newt had to say, being that he's such a fine representative for the Democrats and all.

[cornermouse]

29. If this is a 30-70 year war, the republican party is history.

People won't stand for 30-70 years of a reprise of Vietnam.

[eek MD]

41. Completely agree

There's no way they could keep the pro-war fervor at it's current pitch for 30 years.....even with fascist gestapo tactics....:)

[SmartBomb]

30. It's because the war is not, and never was, about terror

It's about reshaping the world in our image. Luckily, the terror rationale will continue to work perfectly for them. Each brick they lay in their imperialist superhighway will most certainly be met with resistance. As per US propaganda, resistance = terror. So, we will continue to find and kill terrorists for the next 30-70 years. Truth is, most the resistance won't be of the shadowy Al Queda type, it will be indigenous peoples fighting to protect their way of life from the US. The American people don't need to know those details though.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

37. The "war" is about taking out countries, and has little to do with

concentrating on actual terrorists. In fact, it is designed to create more hatred and terrorism so that the playing field can be increased to include the entire earth.

[AngryOldDem]

32. Why do I have the feeling that Newt isn't full of crap about this?

That he may, in fact, be right?

[Cyrano]

33. If we can't get a voting system where we're sure our votes are counted,

then there's every possibility a sewer like Gingrich could end up in the White House.

[Tace]

34. A War Like That Likely Would Leave The Earth Covered In Glass

With nothing alive but mutant cockroaches.

These guys are insane.

[GreenPartyVoter]

39. Agreed on all points

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[Strelnikov_]

38. Lot Of Oil Reserves In The Middle-East, Gonna Take A While

It's hard work.

And thank you for your service (the Faux duty, that is).

[LynnTheDem]

42. It would be a FOREVER war; there are NOT a finite number of "terrorists"

Every time we kill an innocent man, woman, child, baby, we CREATE MORE "terrorists".

bushCartel & the rightwingnuts need to GET OVER THEIR PRE-911 MINDSET.

[captainslack]

44. Why....

doesn't he just explode already?!?!?! :nuke:

[area51]

51. Welcome.

Welcome to DU, captainslack.

[tinrobot]

46. They're turning on themselves...

So much for GOP solidarity.

I think this is just the first crack in the foundation.

[poe]

47. wars all 'round

now the us of A has been bombing mesopotamia for 13 straight years so does that mean only 17 to 47 years left. just doin' a lil' math. before that the brits (lord curzon and gang) had been beatin' and occupying the cradle of civilisation, since the mid 1920's. so does that mean the war has actually been over for a decade or more? just doin' a lil' history.
in the congo at least 4 million have died for western interests, need that coltan for our cell phones and satellite dishes, in just the last 8 years. is that war still in it's infancy newt?

[Eric J in MN]

48. Iraq? Terror? What? (nt)

nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

53. No silly... it's the war to

create terror....



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49. Screw Newt and fuck FAUX

[adigal]

50. I think it's oil, too

I NEVER thought we went after other countries for oil and I never understood those signs that said, "No blood for oil." But this time, I think I was wrong. Especially since I have been hearing over and over about China, and how in the near future they are going to be our main competition for oil and energy sources.

Easier to invade Iraq than promote solar and wind power and it makes the Saudis and our friends at Halliburton happy too.

[leesa]

52. Cheney said this many times and the foolish Republicans and

the extrordinarily DUMB Fundies voted for him anyway.