Impeach Bush for the lack of security in Iraq

380 Tons of missing explosives is the last straw!

Published on October 27, 2004 By COL Gene In Politics

The failure to provide security in Iraq has added to American Casualties and injuries. Bush has not provided the troop levels required to secure the borders and prevent outside terrorists from comming into Iraq. He has not secured the explosives from getting into terrorists hands which are being used to kill and injure American military members or to control the populated areas where terrorists are operating from and planning attacks on our soldiers. The latest revelation that 380 Tons of explosives are missing from a known site is but one of a long list of our failures to secure Iraq and limit American casualties.

Bush made the decision to understaff the military which has resulted in our inability to establish order. Reguardless of whether you agree with the decision to attack Iraq, no one can believe Bush has acted responsibly in the way the war was conducted after Saddam was removed from power. Bush and Cheney are running around telling us how many tons of explosiives we have destroyed not how many tons of explosives we have allowed to fall into the hands of the terrorists that have been used to kill and injure our brave military .

Bush is the where this buck stops and he should be removed as Commander-in-Chief for failing to protect the military he has placed in harms way!

Comments (Page 4)

drmiler

on Oct 30, 2004

Reply #45 By: Draginol - 10/30/2004 1:46:20 PM
The terrorists do not have a government to acquire the supplies they are using. They take then and use them aginst us. You never offer any possible source for their supplies.

As has been WIDELY reported and known to those of us not living in a liberal cocoon, Iran and Syria are helping the insurgents and in fact, a significant percentage of them aren't Iraqi fighters.

This person is doing what is called nit-picking and for the sole purpose of his own agenda. And what is that you ask? The outing of GW Bush! I know he won't admit to this but he really should. No matter what post of his you read it's *always* the same stuff. Bush did this or Bush did that or he should have done it this way or he's done/doing it all wrong. What I find funny is that most of his complaining about Bush is military. Yet most of the people that are directly affected by these so called mistakes are in the other camp.

COL Gene

on Oct 30, 2004

Daiwa I do not know how you know what % of the Amo dumps we control or when that % was calculated, but we did not control enough of the explosives for our enemies to kill hundreds of Americans using them.

Draginol We also did not prevent the foreign terrorists from killing our troops nor did we deal with the areas that supported Saddam. We are losing contrrol every day and all this is the result of a lack of troops. Both the Army CoS and Gen Franks wanted 300,000-400,000 troops to properly do the job. Bush provided 140,000. L. Paul Bremer pleaded with Bush for more forces to regain control in Iraq and Bush did nothing.

Today another 8 of our brave military were killed. Mission Accomplished? HELL NO!

drmiler

on Oct 30, 2004

Reply #47 By: COL Gene - 10/30/2004 2:00:33 PM
Daiwa I do not know how you know what % of the Amo dumps we control or when that % was calculated, but we did not control enough of the explosives for our enemies to kill hundreds of Americans using them.

Draginol We also did not prevent the foreign terrorists from killing our troops nor did we deal with the areas that supported Saddam. We are losing contrrol every day and all this is the result of a lack of troops. Both the Army CoS and Gen Franks wanted 300,000-400,000 troops to properly do the job. Bush provided 140,000. L. Paul Bremer pleaded with Bush for more forces to regain control in Iraq and Bush did nothing.

Today another 8 of our brave military were killed. Mission Accomplished? HELL NO

Why don't you respond to reply #46?

Draginol

on Oct 30, 2004

Draginol We also did not prevent the foreign terrorists from killing our troops nor did we deal with the areas that supported Saddam. We are losing contrrol every day and all this is the result of a lack of troops. Both the Army CoS and Gen Franks wanted 300,000-400,000 troops to properly do the job. Bush provided 140,000. L. Paul Bremer pleaded with Bush for more forces to regain control in Iraq and Bush did nothing.

Today another 8 of our brave military were killed. Mission Accomplished? HELL NO!

You will always have second-guessing on how many military units are needed to get the job done.

But you and your left wing friends want to have it both ways. Kerry talks about Bush stretching the military "too thin" and that if we keep these "reckless policies" that we'll need a draft. Then you guys turn around and talk about needing MORE troops. Well, which is it? Either our military has plenty of extra guys we can send in or it does not. If we have another 300,000 guys sitting around doing nothing that we can send in, then why are you guys complaing about the military being stretched too thin and tlak of bringing back the draft?

COL Gene

on Oct 30, 2004

Draginol

I am a moderate Republican and have been for 40 years. I was a member of the Republican Committee in the mid 70's and can remenber when the GOP stood for things like fiscal sanity (balanced Budgets) and no nation Building. The Bush clan is as far away from this as they can be. Drmiler says I nit -pick. Well if you think a $7.5 Trillion national Debt, 5 million new workers with no jobs, a trade deficit of 1/2 trillion and the situation in Iraq is nit-picking, you better look at a dictionary as to the meaning of that word!

Shark

on Nov 10, 2004

It was Clinton (the over-sexed liberal) that downsized the military. In case you don't want to remember!

kingbee

on Nov 10, 2004

Are you trying to tell me that elements of the 101st airborne were not enough to secure that site? I'll be sure to pass that along

i got no idea why this post was ressurected but as it turns out those of you who were so sure the missing explosives story was some sort of hallucination have been proven wrong by first person accounts from troops of the two units who took it upon themselves to try and prevent (unsucessfully because their pleas for additional manpower were never responded to) massive looting at al-qaaqa.

equally important--at least to me--is how little attention is now focused on the failure of the administration and the command to prevent a large quantity of explosives from being removed from a location about which there was considerable solid intelligence.

here's a link to the story to which im referring Link

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