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Lecture Notes: 12-01-04
There are about 25 million Iraqis.
Half of them are under 18.
Of the 12.5 million adults half of them are women.
Of the 6.25 million male adults of fighting age half are Shea.
Of the 3.125 million Sunni half are Kurds.
Of the 1.6 million Sunni Arab males of fighting age how many are actively supporting the violence?
What are their names? Where do they live? Do they have jobs? Where are they normally found between the hours of 1800 and 0600?
When young men of fighting age left Falujha in the weeks before the fighting how many left with their families? How many left by them selves? Of them how many had residence in towns other than Falujha?
We could have incarcerated all of them.
How many of our young soldiers would be alive to day if we had?
Where are the records? Who is responsible for the data base? ‘Not us,’ say the bureaucrats in the Pentagon. This is the problem with Iraq policy. No one is responsible for Iraq.
The nattily dressed gentleman in the oval office is not responsible. No Iraqi government was established to organize the country in 2002. The one that was set up, (Bremer was hired in March 2003), was folded up. The next one is only serving until “the elections.” And we question why the Iraqi police are not willing to lay down their lives? For who? For what?
What happens when the guerrillas learn rule one? (Rule one: do not attempt to hold territory contested by the United States Marine Corps.) We kill all the stupid ones: then what?
The bureaucrats in the Pentagon say, ‘That’s not our problem. We fight. If they don’t fight us what can we do.’ We allow the bureaucrats to define their own jobs.
If you want to know the names of 1.6 million individuals they can not help. The ones that are employed, 30%, are not as much of a risk; the retarded, 20%, are less of a risk; the top 20%, could be dangerous, but they are probably at school or at least among the employed. So now where are we? .8 million?
What are the names of the 50,000 prisoners that the old regime had arrested? Some were political prisoners but many were criminals. Why haven’t we even arrested them?
Then there is the desert reclamation project. Couldn’t we use 800,000 digging flood control trenches in the desert, at least until we set up the new government?
Couldn’t we have done something? To save the lives of our young people.
I have been getting these panic attacks. Then I remind myself that my nightmare will soon be over.
But yours . . . you will go on being ----
Counselor: Remember, we have talked about this, anger management skills? Breathe . . .
But we live in a democracy right? The other party will do its duty? Kerry was for, no against, no for, wait, wrong war, no he . . . ah . . .
Well we have a Senate. We can count on the Senators to do their due diligence right? Yeah, . . . right. You butt-----
Counselor: Remember, breathe, . . . that’s it . . .
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Lecture Notes: 12-01-04
There are about 25 million Iraqis.
Half of them are under 18.
Of the 12.5 million adults half of them are women.
Of the 6.25 million male adults of fighting age half are Shea.
Of the 3.125 million Sunni half are Kurds.
Of the 1.6 million Sunni Arab males of fighting age how many are actively supporting the violence?
What are their names? Where do they live? Do they have jobs? Where are they normally found between the hours of 1800 and 0600?
When young men of fighting age left Falujha in the weeks before the fighting how many left with their families? How many left by them selves? Of them how many had residence in towns other than Falujha?
We could have incarcerated all of them.
How many of our young soldiers would be alive to day if we had?
Where are the records? Who is responsible for the data base? ‘Not us,’ say the bureaucrats in the Pentagon. This is the problem with Iraq policy. No one is responsible for Iraq.
The nattily dressed gentleman in the oval office is not responsible. No Iraqi government was established to organize the country in 2002. The one that was set up, (Bremer was hired in March 2003), was folded up. The next one is only serving until “the elections.” And we question why the Iraqi police are not willing to lay down their lives? For who? For what?
What happens when the guerrillas learn rule one? (Rule one: do not attempt to hold territory contested by the United States Marine Corps.) We kill all the stupid ones: then what?
The bureaucrats in the Pentagon say, ‘That’s not our problem. We fight. If they don’t fight us what can we do.’ We allow the bureaucrats to define their own jobs.
If you want to know the names of 1.6 million individuals they can not help. The ones that are employed, 30%, are not as much of a risk; the retarded, 20%, are less of a risk; the top 20%, could be dangerous, but they are probably at school or at least among the employed. So now where are we? .8 million?
What are the names of the 50,000 prisoners that the old regime had arrested? Some were political prisoners but many were criminals. Why haven’t we even arrested them?
Then there is the desert reclamation project. Couldn’t we use 800,000 digging flood control trenches in the desert, at least until we set up the new government?
Couldn’t we have done something? To save the lives of our young people.
I have been getting these panic attacks. Then I remind myself that my nightmare will soon be over.
But yours . . . you will go on being ----
Counselor: Remember, we have talked about this, anger management skills? Breathe . . .
But we live in a democracy right? The other party will do its duty? Kerry was for, no against, no for, wait, wrong war, no he . . . ah . . .
Well we have a Senate. We can count on the Senators to do their due diligence right? Yeah, . . . right. You butt-----
Counselor: Remember, breathe, . . . that’s it . . .
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