‘30,000’ Troops
Tuesday, December 01, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Politico’s Michael Calderone reports that the White House is in for a 30,000-troop increase for Afghanistan, clearing up a discrepancy between the 34,000 troops reported by The Washington Post and most of its competitors. But here’s the thing. The troop numbers that are typically announced are combat troops — not support troops like, say, engineers or headquarters staff and so on, the people who enable combat power. That’s why an announced 21,000-troop surge in Iraq in 2007 became, in reality, a 28,000-troop surge. So when Obama announces whatever number he announces, listen for whether it’s an aggregate total or a just a combat-troop total. If it’s a combat troop total, add several thousand troops to the figure he announces.
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Comment posted December 1, 2009 @ 2:55 pm
POURING GASOLINE/PETRO ON THE FIRE!
What will killing Osama Bin Ladin do but ignite the entire Islamic World, it is common knowledge that in the so called [Good Muslim] countries, if a vote were taken and Osama Bin Ladin were on the ballots he would win any elections hands down.
[THE ARAMCO CENTRAL ASIAN PIPELINE]
This is what the Islamic Crescent is really about Gas and Oil lines and in Afghanistan its a transit point thru Afghanistan, to Pakistan and India for the wars of Resources and Markets [Stimulus Wars]. [Af-Pak] was to be a War of Resources and Markets a [Stimulus War], In [1997], an Empire diplomat stated that Unocal oil company executives, with Empire government [DC/544] Democratic and Republicans Crooks and Criminals, approval had entertained, and met with Taliban leaders in Houston, Texas, and had offered them a generous cut of the profits of the oil and gas pumped through a [$2B/€1.3B] Two-Billion-Dollars/One-Point-Three Billion-Euros, pipeline that the Americans wanted to build from Soviet central Asia, Turkmenistan through Afghanistan, to Pakistan and India, the Central Asian Aramco pipeline, a consortium of oil companies, the same that control Saudi Oil, with an emir to be put in place with lots of Sharia law, which the Oil companies are more than willing to live with.
[MORE, MORE, AND MORE]
It is always the same MORE MONEY, MORE TIME, MORE TROOPS, MORE MISSION CREEP, with Empire Troops running Clandestine [Secret] missions into Pakistan at this time, NEW STRATEGIES, then of course we need to build a massive prison in Bagrum which is built already and then a hugh Embassy to house thousands of troops of occupation once the [JOB IS DONE] or is it really to ensure peace at the end of a Marine Bayonet.
[CSTO & CRRF]
A vastly huge regional security alliance force capable of waging a large-scale war, the European collective force alone, includes all Belarusian military with the entire Western Russian Federation Forces; and was expanded in [1992] to include; [Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan], as a purely military structure to ensure security in the Central Asia Region against an invasion from an Empire War of Resources and Markets Surge. Under a new security strategy uniting the [CRRF] Collective Rapid Response Forces, a military organization on par with [NATO] The North American Treaty Organization in all respects, with the [CSTO] greatly enlarging its military capabilities in Central Asia by forming a strong, joint armed force, the member countries have contributed units in the magnitudes of higher-than-brigade scale to its organizational force structure, including armored, artillery and navy units creating a powerful military block to balance [NATO] in the Central Asia and the Caspian Sea region. This in response to the expected pre-emptive nuclear attack upon both The Russian Federation and the Shi-ite Persian Republic of Iran by the Empire, brought on by an anticipated, Empire Surge in its Wars or Resources and Markets into the energy-rich region. [Central Asian nations prepare for “big war” http://WWW.RussiaToday.Com, and as reported by as Kommersant newspaper [CSTO] spokesman Vitaly Strugovets told Kommersant.].
THIS IS POURING GAS/PETRO ON THE FIRE
Hercule Triathlon Savinien
Hard-Core Independent Civil Libertarian Tea-Bagger.
Comment posted December 1, 2009 @ 7:55 pm
POURING GASOLINE/PETRO ON THE FIRE!
What will killing Osama Bin Ladin do but ignite the entire Islamic World, it is common knowledge that in the so called [Good Muslim] countries, if a vote were taken and Osama Bin Ladin were on the ballots he would win any elections hands down.
[THE ARAMCO CENTRAL ASIAN PIPELINE]
This is what the Islamic Crescent is really about Gas and Oil lines and in Afghanistan its a transit point thru Afghanistan, to Pakistan and India for the wars of Resources and Markets [Stimulus Wars]. [Af-Pak] was to be a War of Resources and Markets a [Stimulus War], In [1997], an Empire diplomat stated that Unocal oil company executives, with Empire government [DC/544] Democratic and Republicans Crooks and Criminals, approval had entertained, and met with Taliban leaders in Houston, Texas, and had offered them a generous cut of the profits of the oil and gas pumped through a [$2B/€1.3B] Two-Billion-Dollars/One-Point-Three Billion-Euros, pipeline that the Americans wanted to build from Soviet central Asia, Turkmenistan through Afghanistan, to Pakistan and India, the Central Asian Aramco pipeline, a consortium of oil companies, the same that control Saudi Oil, with an emir to be put in place with lots of Sharia law, which the Oil companies are more than willing to live with.
[MORE, MORE, AND MORE]
It is always the same MORE MONEY, MORE TIME, MORE TROOPS, MORE MISSION CREEP, with Empire Troops running Clandestine [Secret] missions into Pakistan at this time, NEW STRATEGIES, then of course we need to build a massive prison in Bagrum which is built already and then a hugh Embassy to house thousands of troops of occupation once the [JOB IS DONE] or is it really to ensure peace at the end of a Marine Bayonet.
[CSTO & CRRF]
A vastly huge regional security alliance force capable of waging a large-scale war, the European collective force alone, includes all Belarusian military with the entire Western Russian Federation Forces; and was expanded in [1992] to include; [Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan], as a purely military structure to ensure security in the Central Asia Region against an invasion from an Empire War of Resources and Markets Surge. Under a new security strategy uniting the [CRRF] Collective Rapid Response Forces, a military organization on par with [NATO] The North American Treaty Organization in all respects, with the [CSTO] greatly enlarging its military capabilities in Central Asia by forming a strong, joint armed force, the member countries have contributed units in the magnitudes of higher-than-brigade scale to its organizational force structure, including armored, artillery and navy units creating a powerful military block to balance [NATO] in the Central Asia and the Caspian Sea region. This in response to the expected pre-emptive nuclear attack upon both The Russian Federation and the Shi-ite Persian Republic of Iran by the Empire, brought on by an anticipated, Empire Surge in its Wars or Resources and Markets into the energy-rich region. [Central Asian nations prepare for “big war” http://WWW.RussiaToday.Com, and as reported by as Kommersant newspaper [CSTO] spokesman Vitaly Strugovets told Kommersant.].
THIS IS POURING GAS/PETRO ON THE FIRE
Hercule Triathlon Savinien
Hard-Core Independent Civil Libertarian Tea-Bagger.
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