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2008-03-17 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Cheney comes to Mideast with rich agenda

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Posted by Steve White 2008-03-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Good luck with that, no one is going to do anything for us. We are on our own and always have been.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-03-17 12:16|| 2008-03-17 12:16|| Front Page Top

#2 "The mood has deteriorated incredibly since the last time the President was here" > As already reported, many "moderate" or pro-US/Western Muslim + Arab Govts do NOT WANT IRAN TO HAVE NUKE WEAPONS. 2008 US POTUS ELEX POSTURING = CAMPAIGN WAFFLISM > Amer's Aram-Muslim ME Allies are interpreting as "NO REGIME CHANGE IN RADICAL IRAN" + that the US will likely downsize iff not completely pullout from IRAQ-ME iff a Dem wins 2008. ALSO READ AS > POST-DUBYA/JAN 2009 THE NEW ADMIN = USA WILL LEAVE A WEAK IRAQI DEMOCRATIC GOVT IN PLACE, MIL UNSUPPOR OR IN ALTERN ONLY PARTIALLY SUPPOR BY A MUCH REDUCED US MILFOR PRESENCE, EITHER OF WHICH IS LIKELY TO BE ADVANTAGEOUS TO NUCLEARIZING IRAN + RADICAL INSURGENTS.

FOX this Guam AM > showed film montage of HILLARY being in favor of sending small special units agz insurgents, plus proclaiming that she will "STICK" wid her WAR-ENDING PLAN WHICH CALLS FOR REDUCING THE US MILFOR PRESENCE IN IRAQ-ME BY 10,000 sldiers PER MONTH, AND WID THE US PRESENCE [Advisors?]ELIMINATED COMPLETELY IN ROUGHLY ONE YEAR??? Unfortunately for HILLARY = HILLARY's WITHDRAWAL PLAN, Clinton advisor WESLEY CLARK believes the situation in Iraq + Afghani belies a realistic US need for maintaining a large = "sufficient" US combat presence, + ORALLY PROCLAIMED TO BE NOT IN FAVOR OF A TOTAL + UNILATER COMPLETE US WITHDRAWAL IFF HILLARY OR A DEM WINS IN 2008.

Also from FOX > Analyst DAN SENOR > despite their rhetoric for withdrawal, argued that ALL THE POTUS CANDIDATES, INCLUDING HILLARY + OBAMA, HAVE INDIC A WILLINGNESS TO CHANGE THEIR OPTIONS ACCORDING TO SITUATIONAL REQUIREMENTS IN IRAQ-ME, + THAT IN REALITY AMER SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE A CONTINUED US MIL PRESENCE = US TROOPS IN THE ME FOR ANOTHER DECADE/TEN YEARS [2018]NO MATTER WHOM GOP-DEM WINS THE WH IN 2008.

2008-2018 [beyond?] > iff there is a HIDDEN IMAM/MAHDI as per OSAMA + MOUD, etc, the same in belief should be able to de facto defeat or destroy the anti-Islamist/Radicalist US-Allied presence in Iraq-ME regardless of enemy troop levels, MORESO IFF US MILFOR LEVELS DE FACTO REDUXES TO UNDER 100,000 bwteen FEB 2009 - DEC 2010 [Median 40,000-70,000].

REGARDLESS OF US-PER SE TROOP LEVELS, IMO RADICAL ISLAM CAN'T WAIT UNTIL 2018 - already stretching to last thru 2012. IMO THIS IS A SUBTLE OR COVERT MEANING TO A RUSS ANALYST'S PREMISE THAT THE USA CAN ATTACK RUSSIA 2011-2015. Russ knows it may soon no longer be able to use Radical Islam as a timely or time-intensive hedge agz the USA-NATO, nor even to justify local anti-Islamist mil ventures in Russ former SSR's in Central Asia, Chechnya, etc.

2008-2010 > WILL RADICAL ISLAM INITIATE "AMER HIROSHIMA" OPTIONS TO ESCALATE-INDUCE GREAT POWERS CONFRONTATIONISM IN ORDER TO PRECLUDE REGIONAL-GLOBAL ISLAMIST MILITARY DEFEAT???
Again, 'twas what IMAMS-MAHDIS, MESSIAHS AND SAVIORS ETC., ARE FOR, CORRECT!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-17 22:09|| 2008-03-17 22:09|| Front Page Top

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