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Published: September 16, 2007 12:21 am    print this story   email this story   comment on this story  

What The General Should Have Said





I wish that General Petraeus had presented at this week’s congressional committee hearings, the short version of why the Iraq Battle in the War Against Islamofascism wasn’t won years ago — to wit:

“Mr. Chairman, I won’t need graphs and charts to show you why we are still fighting in Iraq. If you will each turn to the member next to you, you will have found the reason.”

This august body is monitored minute by minute by the Iraqi governmental officials and all Iraqis, down to the man on the street, each waiting for some confirmation that the United States will not cut and run, ą la Vietnam.

Even this august body can understand that until this confidence is instilled in the Iraqi people by this very congressional body by a show of valid unity of purpose, Iraqis can’t and won’t provide the vast Human Intelligence (HUMINT) readily in their possession to coalition forces that is necessary to win this battle, and win it fast.

Understandably, without this very body’s commitment, the price is just too high for the Iraqis and their families to face possible eventual retaliatory annihilation by the terrorist enemy in the near future, knowing full well this body’s record of the past —

I will now return to my troops in Iraq and prepare with great anticipation, along with the of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, your rectification of those national military defense deficiencies deemed above by the military’s pay grade.

HUWAH!!



Armond “Si” Simmons

Pell City, Ala.

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