Powell: U.S. forces to enter Iraqi 'no-go zones'

[NeoConsSuck]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military will move into insurgent-heavy "no-go zones" in Iraq to clear the way for legitimate elections in January, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.

The Bush administration is hoping free elections will help stabilize the country and build a sense of legitimacy for the new government.

But administration officials have acknowledged that continued violence in many parts of the country could make voting dangerous or perhaps even impossible in some areas.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/26/iraq.main/index.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Gee listening to McCain I see

and hagel

Ironnic,

Colin should know where things like this end though.

[leftchick]

2. bombing the hell out of the resistance worked wonders in VietNam

right colin? :puke:

[Lizzie Borden]

3. And we all know...

elections where only 70% of the people can vote won't bother them at all.

[readmylips]

4. I guess, they'll be no one alive to vote...

Puppet Allawi will voted in by bush and administration and the winner is...bush!

How is bush planning to keep Saddam from entering his name in the election run off? Who is running against puppet Allawi? I hope Saddam is the one running against Allawi. I'd love to see little bush explain that one.

[MrBenchley]

5. So the Secretary of State now makes military decisions...

the Secretary of Defense seems to be insane....the Attorney General is 0 for 5,000 in terrorism cases, and the Secretary of Homeland Security is handing out contracts to his stock portfolio...

Yeah, the grown-ups are in charge (snicker)...

[allemand]

6. At least the Secretary of State is qualified to make military decisions.

I have my doubts about the Secretary of Defense, though.

The State Department should have been in charge of the reconstruction of Iraq from the beginning, not the Pentagon.

"A parallel battle between pragmatists and true believers was being waged within the Bush Administration. <...>
Whereas the State Department had its Future of Iraq report, the neocons had USAID’s contract with Bearing Point to remake Iraq’s economy. <...>

On May 9, Bush proposed the “establishment of a U.S.-Middle East free trade area within a decade”; three days later, Bush sent Paul Bremer to Baghdad to replace Jay Garner, who had been on the job for only three weeks. The message was unequivocal: the pragmatists had lost; Iraq would belong to the believers."
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0924-13.htm

"Sure enough, the administration was unprepared for predictable security problems in Iraq, but moved quickly — in violation of international law — to impose its economic vision. Last month Jay Garner, the first U.S. administrator of Iraq, told the BBC that he was sacked in part because he wanted to hold quick elections. His superiors wanted to privatize Iraqi industries first — as part of a plan that, according to Mr. Garner, was drawn up in late 2001."
http://www.pkarchive.org/column/042304.html

"The insurgency took root during the occupation's first few months, when the Coalition Provisional Authority seemed oddly disengaged from the problems of postwar anarchy. But what was Paul Bremer III, the head of the C.P.A., focused on? According to a Washington Post reporter who shared a flight with him last June, "Bremer discussed the need to privatize government-run factories with such fervor that his voice cut through the din of the cargo hold." <...> Insurgents are blowing up pipelines and police stations, geysers of sewage are erupting from the streets, and the electricity is off most of the time — but we've given Iraq the gift of supply-side economics."
http://www.pkarchive.org/column/062904.html

[MrBenchley]

9. Is Rumsfeld insane? Mercy me, yes.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Don't forget that they tried this already

This is as hollow a promise as going back to the UN for another resolution. These no go cities are potentially the election loser for bush, so don't expect anything but saber rattling until the week after the election, should he win, then look out. bush is ever on the quest to legitimatize the illegitimate through bogus misrepresented resolutions, acts of congress and now phony elections.



Sistani saved the day in Najaf, otherwise we would still be in there "winning hearts and minds".

[krkaufman]

8. Well.... What're you waiting for Colon? Get going....!

Or are you delaying the new offensive until after some future date?

[Supersedeas]

11. delayed until casualties become mute as a political issue

[UpInArms]

10. that should up the death count

in short order!

Perhaps the idiots that occupy our government should be on the front line of this new plan.