[quote]hedo wrote:
ExNole wrote:
bigflamer wrote:
doogie wrote:
I think we might need to build a few big bases in Kurd territory, then withdraw everyone to there. Be prepared to swoop in and do what we need to do, but keep our troops out of day to day bullshit.
I think that’s a really good idea. I believe that idea has been offered by some generals as well. Getting the work done without being seen as “occupiers” would, I believe, be the key to finishing the job in Iraq.
That was basically Murtha’s idea, only having us outside of the country. We would mainly use airpower to support the Iraqi forces in quelling the insurgency.
He wanted to do it from outside the Middle East…Guam actually. That proposal was ridiculous.
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He didn’t say Guam. First Kuwait, then Qatar, then Bahrain,(all in the middle east–opposite of outside fyi) and then Okinawa
he said:
REP. MURTHA: Kuwait?s one that will take us. Qatar, we already have bases in Qatar. So Bahrain. All those countries are willing to take the United States. Now, Saudi Arabia won?t because they wanted us out of there in the first place. So?and we don?t have to be right there. We can go to Okinawa. We, we don?t have?we can redeploy there almost instantly. So that?s not?that?s, that?s a fallacy. That, that?s just a statement to rial up people to support a failed policy wrapped in illusion.
MR. RUSSERT: But it?d be tough to have a timely response from Okinawa.
REP. MURTHA: Well, it?you know, they?when I say Okinawa, I, I?m saying troops in Okinawa. When I say a timely response, you know, our fighters can fly from Okinawa very quickly. And?and?when they don?t know we?re coming. There?s no question about it. And, and where those airplanes won?t?came from I can?t tell you, but, but I?ll tell you one thing, it doesn?t take very long for them to get in with cruise missiles or with, with fighter aircraft or, or attack aircraft, it doesn?t take any time at all. So we, we have done?this one particular operation, to say that that couldn?t have done, done?it was done from the outside, for heaven?s sakes.