"Widening the War"

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Guns and Butter
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

"Widening the War"
Interview with author and historian, Webster Tarpley. The ramifications of Bush's speech to the nation on U.S. policy in the middle east, new political appointments, military maneuvers, and the crisis in Iraq are discussed. Tarpley compares today's crisis in Iraq with historic battles, and examines possible looming disasters if the U.S. does not give up on its imperialist Iraq adventure.

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1. Frederick Kagan leading bush advisor

The architect of the new plan

absolutely no military experience

Choosing Victory



http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:MgxVUs7N7AAJ:www.adolfhitler.ws/lib/speeches/text/391123.html+nov+23+1939+hitler+i+choose+victory&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
I am risking all this on a gamble. But I have to choose between victory or destruction. I choose victory. Greatest historical choice of all time, to be compared with the decision of Frederick the Great before the first Silesian War. Prussia owes its rise to the heroism of this one man. Even there, his closest advisors were disposed to capitulation. Everything depended on Frederick the Great. Even the decisions of Bismarck in 1866 and 1870 were no less great. My decision now is unchangeable. I shall attack France and England at the most favorable and quickest moment. Breach of the neutrality of Belgium and Holland is a meaningless issue. No one will question it when we have won. But we shall not bring about the violation of neutrality as idiotically as it was done in 1914. If we do not break their neutrality, then England and France will.

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2. A tougher journey to stock US troops in Iraq

http://206.190.35.122/s/csm/20070108/wl_csm/oconvoy

A tougher journey to stock US troops in Iraq

ABDALY, KUWAIT-IRAQ BORDER - At this dusty border crossing in northern Kuwait, more than 200 18-wheelers wait to cross into Iraq. Braving Sunni insurgents, Shiite militias, and criminal gangs, these trucks are vital links in the supply chain that keeps some 130,000 US military personnel in Iraq afloat.

"Why you come to Iraq? You come again, I kill you," says a Bangladeshi driver, describing the vitriol that he and other contractors supporting the American effort routinely face.

Asked how long he intends to take his chances, he says: "Until I'm dead. I need work, I'll carry on."

A stark reminder of the perilousness of the 400-mile journey from here to a US logistics hub in Iraq came last week in a videotape of five kidnapped security contractors - four Americans and one Austrian. It was the first word from the men since their convoy that originated from this outpost was ambushed on Nov. 16.

The tape was "a good sign" but not one that signals that their release is imminent, says the spokesperson for their employer, Crescent Security Group.

Another American contractor was kidnapped Friday in Basra, according to the US Embassy in Baghdad. The Associated Press reported that the two Iraqis he was traveling with were found dead following the abduction.

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3. just like Hitler's obsession with Stalingrad in 1942

bush's obsession with Baghdad


just like Hitler firing the heads of his army, bush does the same

you can not privatize logistics