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Posted at 8:34am on Oct. 15, 2007 My Favorite Sanchez Excerpt
By bantamwait
Everybody is pulling their preferred pieces out of LTG (Ret.) Ricardo Sanchez's howl of pain before the military press last Friday. It's been interesting to see the selective quoting by people with a variety of axes to grind.
As many on RedState know, my axe is military preparedness, or the current lack of same. So far be it from me not to chime in with my favorite quote, which nobody I have seen in the blogosphere has yet seen fit to cite:
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Posted at 1:45pm on Sep. 27, 2007 Gen. Casey: Army "out of balance"
By bantamwait
The new Army Chief of Staff, Gen. George Casey, personally requested a public congressional hearing, at which he testified yesterday. I urge everyone to read about what he said. The gist of it (caution--filtered through the Boston Globe):
"WASHINGTON - The Army's top officer, General George Casey, told Congress yesterday that his branch of the military has been stretched so thin by the war in Iraq that it can not adequately respond to another conflict - one of the strongest warnings yet from a military leader that repeated deployments to war zones in the Middle East have hamstrung the military's ability to deter future aggression.
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Posted at 10:58am on Sep. 15, 2007 Iraq is the Only Front
By bantamwait
Iraq is not only the central front of the war on terror, it’s the only front.
We face no threat from Iran, except that coming over the border from the Revolutionary Guard. They will not develop nuclear weapons. If they do, we can take them out surgically with air power. Our 160,000 troops now in Iraq will face no threat from the Iranian military or other inflamed neighboring Muslim states.
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Posted at 1:34pm on Jan. 3, 2007 Iran's Gain
By bantamwait
Setting aside how we got here, it’s time to wake up to a sobering fact: The greatest beneficiary of the war in Iraq is Iran.
Bush administration policy makers are starting to grasp this frightening fact. It should have been clear for a while—when Maliki ordered the hunt for the kidnappers of an American soldier in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad cut off, when he stood up the President at a dinner meeting in Jordan, when his vice-president denounced Israel and the Jews—that the government the Iraqis have put in place, with our help, is not “a stable democracy” and “an ally in the war on terror.”
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