the_war_on_iraq_'far_graver_than_vietnam' 916 * a_Point_in_Time * Far graver than Vietnam Sidney Blumenthal Thursday September 16, 2004 The Guardian Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale... (Sep 16) 2004 040915 ... An "amazing" newslink http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1305360,00.html "according to the US military's leading strategists and prominent retired generals, Bush's war is already lost." 040915 ... . Retired general William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency, told me: "Bush hasn't found the WMD. Al-Qaida, it's worse, he's lost on that front. That he's going to achieve a democracy there? That goal is lost, too. It's lost." He adds: "Right now, the course we're on, we're achieving Bin Laden's ends." 040915 ... a "Point" a_point_in_time- a_wrong_War_in_21k:- 15 Sep 2004 "The_graces_from_Heaven" Iraq_war_illegal_says_Annan_'UN_Secretary_General' 040915 040915 ... . iLink:- The_echoes_of_Vietnam 040915 ... 916 Vietnam War-era defense secretary says US got it wrong in Iraq Thu Sep 16, 3:06 PM ET http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&e=15&u=/afp/20040916/pl_afp/iraq_us_italy_mcnamara_040916190647 ROME (AFP) - Former US defense secretary Robert McNamara, a key hawk in the Vietnam War, said as he got married here that the United States had got it wrong in Iraq 040916 ... An "amazing" newslink Without naming US President George_W_Bush and his administration, he said that "it's a terrible problem and I don't know how it will end." 040916 ... Thus have I read / heard. 104 U.S. Faces Complex Insurgency in Iraq 34 minutes ago 041004 ... 4 Oct 2004 U.S. Faces Complex Insurgency in Iraq http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041005/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_complex_insurgency&cid=540&ncid=1473 34 minutes ago 041004 ... 104 Four Distinct Groups in Iraqi Insurgency AP - 2 hours, 51 minutes ago 041004 ... 1) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041004/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_insurgent_groups&cid=540&ncid=1473 FORMER (Saddam_Hussein) REGIME MEMBERS 041004 ... 2) ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI ALLIES: Al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group; 041004 ... 3) SUPPORTERS OF ISLAMIC THEOCRACY: Iraqis who want to install governmental system based on Islamic law; 041004 ... 4) MAHDI ARMY: Radical cleric Muqtada al Sadr "Moqtada_al_Sadr"'s militia in Shiite Muslim community. 041004 ... 5) OOps... The Fifth Group:- Why_do_Islamic_Extremists_hate_the_United_States Islamic Extremists across_the_Universe 041016 ... 1262005 Bush (War_president / commander_in_Chief) 's plea for Iraq war ("a_wrong_war_in_21k") funds evokes memories of Vietnam 12 hours ago 050126 ... http Iraq rocked by wave of car bombs Wednesday, 1262005, 13:09 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4207907.stm 050126 ... 362005 Iraqi army takes 1st step toward relieving GIs 9:40 AM ET 050306 ... U.S. about 4,000 Iraqi soldiers with full authority over 10 Baghdad neighborhoods, and Iraqi officials (/ General(s)) say. 050306 ... 1570 Time_and_Causality_of_Karma... 050426 ... IED * 123 * around_and_across the_Soul_of_Iraq... 050426 ... 4262005 Iraqi insurgency 'undiminished' 050426 ... 0^0 The US military's most senior member says Iraqi insurgents have lost none of their ability to stage attacks. 050426 ... BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4488099.stm 050426 ... 592005 Iraq Smells Like Vietnam 050509 ... 1570 * 555 + 4 * Iraq's_new_chapter___ 050509 ... factor followup mackris 050509 ... 2 hours ago 6232005 050623 ... U.S. Vice President Dick_Cheney: Iraq will be 'enormous success story' 050623 ... 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AFX) - US troops are winning the battle against the stubborn insurgency in Iraq, , Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has insisted... 6232005 050623 ... over US Lawmakers Voice Concerns Iraq to Defense Secretary...Voice of America 050623 ... over Top US commander disputes Cheney claim Iraq insurgency 050623 ... " http://english.people.com.cn/200506/24/eng20050624_192049.html ...a claim by Vice President Dick Cheney that the Iraqi insurgency was in its last throes," saying the insurgents are still strong.... 050623 ... 11 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The Iraqi insurgency is as active as six months ago and 050623 ... all the time more foreign fighters are flowing in , the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said Thursday... 050623 ... (Sunnis) secret_code 050623 ... 2 hours 5 minutes ago 6252005 050625 ... Iraq Suicide bombing kills 9 in 's Samarra 050625 ... (at least) 4 hours ago 19 Iraqis, 6 US Troops Killed in Separate Attacks 050625 ... now 6262005 56 percent of Americans believe Iraq war was a wrong decision 050626 ... 5 hours ago At Army Base, Bush Urges Americans Not To Waver On Iraq 6282005 050629 ... 8302005 * What's_reality * 050830 ... Let there be light "Dollars_and_Cents The U.S. war in Iraq now costs ( $5.6 billion per month / almost $186 million a day) more than Vietnam war ($5.1 billion per month, adjusting for inflation)... 050830 ... " A report from the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy in Focus:- http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30297215.htm The Iraq Quagmire" 050830 ... 123 * The_graces_from_heaven * 050830 ... Bush (War_president / US) ompares Iraq war to WWII 050830 ... Finger World_war_II 050830 ... Moon _'face_up_to_history'_... 050830 ... * Historical_wrongdoings * 050830 ... 9292005 what's_reality 050929 ... only Of Iraq's 86 battalions, one ready to fight 050929 ... unhinged i love you kx21 180305 what's it to you? who go blather from