Gen Pace: There's no way to stop the violence

[Rose Siding]

In Washington, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged that the American strategy of training tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police hasn't curbed violence and that senior military commanders were puzzled by its failure. "We do need to take a look" at other factors that might be driving violence, he said.

Pace said a berm designed to encircle Baghdad and restrict the movement of death squad members and insurgents in and out of the city had been completed recently and that 28 checkpoints manned by Iraqis now controlled the entrances to the city.

But he said death squads continued to operate in the capital after dark even in neighborhoods that U.S. and Iraqi forces had swept. He said he saw no way for American troops to stop that violence until Iraqis tired of the slaughter.

"You cannot have enough men under arms 24-7 to stop the hatred killings," he said.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15743539.htm

[Sherman A1]

1. So we assume this means that "stay the course"

is working "swimmingly"? Also known as "The Plan is We Have No Plan".

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. How about making some noise that maybe DC will hear?

Christ, what does it take to get that asshole Rumsfeld to LISTEN?

[TheCowsCameHome]

self delete, sorry

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. He might listen if he cared.... I doubt he cares about anything

other than proving he is right on this known unknown, or that unknown known.

[catnhatnh]

3. Well of course you can Peter.....

Your C-in-C said you can have more troops any time you ask.....Oh, you don't want the same treatment as the OTHER generals who asked for more troops???

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Then get the hell out of their country.

The geniuses at the Pentagon have yet figure out that they lost the war. So, instead of getting out, they send in more troops to throw kersosene on the fire and make it worse.

Those morons, like Pace, should be digging graves for the people they ordered to make the "ultimate sacrifice".

[LibDemAlways]

5. What a dumbass. Does he really believe that

US forces training Iraqis to kill other Iraqis who want to kill Americans is a solution to anything?

How about getting the hell out, now, and giving the Iraqi people 130,000 fewer targets.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. "No one could have imagined that there would be this kind of violence"

[wtmusic]

8. "until Iraqis tired of the slaughter"

the ethnocentrism, the naivete, the sheer idiocy of that statement is breathtaking.

[partylessinOhio]

9. Saddam had them under control. That must make their heads spin.

Free Saddam, restore him to power and LEAVE! If you're damn lucky he'll take the offer.

[americanstranger]

10. The only way he could get away with saying this...

...is if he was helping to lay the groundwork for bugging out.

No wonder Baker kept saying 'After the election.'

Maybe that poster talking about the 'November Surprise' is on to something.

- as