Death Squads Roaming the Streets
20 March 2006 4:13 pm by Taylor Marsh
Death Squads Roaming the Streets –updated–
Every time Michael Ware is interviewed I shake my head. Today on CNN with Wolfie, he said that death
squads have been roaming the streets for a year. Bodies show up dead every day on the street.
But we can't leave, according to Ware. Iran would make a play. The government
would collapse. The insurgency has an “enduring quality.” (…I'm
hearing Ho Chi Minh again…) Insurgents regenerate themselves constantly. I'm still
backing Jack Murtha's play, which is to redeploy.
REP. MURTHA: … But then, then, then
we go to, to how do we get our troops out of there? You redeploy to the periphery
so that we, if we have to, we can go back in. The terrorism—there was
no terrorism in Iraq before we went there. None. There was no connection with
al-Qaida, there was no connection with, with terrorism in Iraq itself. So
we went in and they keep saying terrorism, and, and we’re diverting
ourself away from terrorism. That’s the thing that probably worries
me the most.Mr. President, let’s go back to fighting the
war on terrorism. Let, let’s reduce our presence in Iraq, let’s
start to rebuild the Army, because the Army’s broken as far as I’m
concerned. And the military commanders know this.I talk to the military commanders all the time. I know
what’s going on in the military. And, and most of the military in Iraq,
70 percent of our troops say we want out of there, and 42 percent say they
don’t know what their mission is for heaven’s sake.MR. RUSSERT: Does the Pentagon support what you’re
saying?REP. MURTHA: Well, the Pentagon doesn’t support
it publicly, obviously, because of what happened to General Shinseki.MR. RUSSERT: Have they told you privately?
REP. MURTHA: Oh, absolutely. I mean, so many of them
have said, “Keep saying the truth, keep telling the truth.” All
kinds of military commanders have said that to—they know. They don’t
even have to tell me.
UPDATE: An article from NBC news that's worth your attention. Thanks to reader, punaise. It's the news item tip of today.
