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04/18/2004 Archived Entry: "Tell us something we didn't know, Boots..."
Tell us something we didn't know, Boots...
Surprise, surprise...
Iraq's police and armed forces will not have the capability to secure the country from the threat of insurgents by the time the United States hands power to an Iraqi government on June 30, the top U.S. administrator said Sunday.Elsewhere, five U.S. Marines died in an ambush on the Syrian border, triggering a battle with hundreds of guerrillas and pushing the number Americans killed in combat this month to 99.
At least 25 Iraqis were killed in the fighting that followed Saturday's ambush in Husaybah, 240 miles west of Baghdad, the military said. The city's police chief was among the dead, a hospital official said.
The comments by U.S. civilian administrator L. Paul Bremer aimed to defend the continued heavy presence of U.S. troops in Iraq after the occupation officially ends, but also delivered a rare, blunt assessment to the Iraqi people.
"It is clear that Iraqi forces will not be able, on their own, to deal with these threats by June 30 when an Iraqi government assumes sovereignty," Bremer said in a statement issued by the U.S. coalition.
"Events of the past two weeks show that Iraq still faces security threats and needs outside help to deal with them. Early this month the foes of democracy overran Iraqi police stations and seized public buildings in several parts of the country," he said. "Iraqi forces were unable to stop them.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
Ah, for the love of oil, God and country we are in Iraq for a long, long time.
Remember folks, after the British gassed the Iraqi's from RAF planes in the 1920's, they stayed until the fifties. Thirty years.
Let's see when we leave. And see if Mr. Kerry, should he get in, ever leaves that sorrowful oil-rich place.
leaves that place.
Posted by Dr. K @ 04/18/2004 05:27 PM NY
