1999 War Games

    Through a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Security Archive, records have been released detailing the governments 1999 War Games which showed that we would need 400,000 troops to invade Iraq and that chaos would possibly follow the invasion.

    Of course,as you can guess,Rumsfeld and the rest of Bushco knew better than the military and sent in an under-staffed invasion unit.

    Our peak was 160,000 troops in January and we are now down to 144,000.

 

-"The debate on post-Saddam Iraq also reveals the paucity of information about the potential and capabilities of the external Iraqi opposition groups. The lack of intelligence concerning their roles hampers U.S. policy development."

-"Also, some participants believe that no Arab government will welcome the kind of lengthy U.S. presence that would be required to install and sustain a democratic government."

-"A long-term, large-scale military intervention may be at odds with many coalition partners."

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Iraq Is About Oil: George Bush

    Before the war in Iraq started, President Bush said that this war was not about oil. Rumsfeld said "nonsense," 

    Now that the elections are near and it appears that the Repugnicans will lose some if not all of their leadership positions, George Bush has been out on the trail  what few fans he has left that oil is the reason to stay in Iraq! You know the story. If we leave then the insurgents will hand over the oil reserves to the terrorist who will then use it as a weapon against other countries.

"You can imagine a world in which these extremists and radicals got control of energy resources.And then you can imagine them saying, We're going to pull a bunch of oil off the market to run your price of oil up unless you do the following. And the following would be along the lines of, well, ' Retreat and let us continue to expand our dark vision.' " Bush said this at a rally for Rep.Marilyn Musgrave(R-Colo.) on Saturday.

   The Washington Post is running a story on this HERE