Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Gen.: Al-Qaida seeks to use WMD in Mideast (Gen. George Casey)

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Latest Breaking News Donate to DU
 
sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:40 AM
Original message
Gen.: Al-Qaida seeks to use WMD in Mideast (Gen. George Casey)

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-8/1128003544119260.xml&storylist=topstories

Gen.: Al-Qaida seeks to use WMD in Mideast

WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida is the main enemy to peace and stability in the Middle East and the terrorist group is seeking to acquire — and use — weapons of mass destruction there, a top U.S. commander in Iraq told Congress.

"The enemy that brought us 9/11 continues to represent one of the greatest dangers to this nation," warned Gen. John Abizaid, the commander of U.S. Central Command.

He was testifying alongside Gen. George Casey, the most senior commander of coalition forces in Iraq, before the Senate and House Armed Services committees. Also to testify Thursday were Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard B. Myers, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

President Bush sent the group to Capitol Hill to try to convince lawmakers — and their skeptical constituents — that the United States is making progress in the war. The back-to-back hearings in the House and Senate are part of a White House effort to bolster slipping public support for the war.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
tainowarrior Donating Member (425 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:42 AM
Response to Original message
1. Tony The Tiger, Spiderman, and Tickle-Me Elmo
are all trying to produce one huge Weapons of Mass Destruction fart bomb by combining their asshole-fart pressure into a fart bomb receptacle.


Hey, it's as believable as the junk these Generals put out once in a while.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:58 AM
Response to Reply #1
10. Gen. John Abizaid = " USELESS REPUKE ASS-CLOWN"
This idiot is a WAR CRIMINAL AND A THUG
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:43 AM
Response to Original message
2. Al-Qaida is the main enemy to peace and stability
in the Middle East ? Seems to me that position was taken the moment the US invaded Iraq.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:45 AM
Response to Original message
3. i'm gLad we took out iraq's wmd's then
whew!!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:46 AM
Response to Original message
4. And where does Spectre and Thrush fit into the picture?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:46 AM
Response to Original message
5. Well then why did we invade Iraq, where there was no AlQaeda?
I guess we are supposed to forget that there was no AlQaeda in Iraq before Bush invaded it and threw the doors open.

Jesus, we are ruled by idiots.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:47 AM
Response to Original message
6. That is so fucking dysfunctional!
If you don't get along with each other I swear I'll pull this jeep over right now and shoot you! Hell, I'll shoot you anyways!

Spreading peace and democracy through the use of force. What a novel concept.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
kahleefornia Donating Member (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:51 AM
Response to Reply #6
8. Hey - I just thought of something
So we were going to solve everything by bringing freedom to the Iraqis. I know why it didn't work! They HATE freedom!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:50 AM
Response to Original message
7. Fear, fear, everywhere there's fear. Let's try the old 'mushroom cloud'
thingy again.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 09:56 AM
Response to Original message
9. That dog don't hunt anymore
"Fool me once..."
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:01 AM
Response to Original message
11. NEWS FLASH! SO DOES THE U.S.
Bush isn't funding the creation of mini-nukes to use on U.S. soil.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:13 AM
Response to Original message
12. probably can't kill more than usa is already doing -
not sure who the terriorists are anymore - usa seems to do a lot of killing and torture around the world on a regular basis
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:17 AM
Response to Reply #12
13. He is crying wolf? we do not know-as Jr cried wolf with SH and wmd.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:19 AM
Response to Original message
14. "The enemy that brought us 9/11" - We know who THAT is.
Edited on Thu Sep-29-05 10:23 AM by Dover
"The enemy that brought us 9/11 continues to represent one of the greatest dangers to this nation,"

Yes, indeed.....and they are going to pull another 9/11 in the Middle East. Apparently the Pentagon expects to use their WMD in Iran and elsewhere.
Gee those evil "al qaedas" and their "wmd" just always get the slip on us somehow...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:23 AM
Response to Reply #14
15. How can we trutst them after the mushroom cloud and SH and wmp lies?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:23 AM
Response to Reply #15
16. and will Congress trust them this time?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:25 AM
Response to Reply #16
17. and can Congress afford NOT to trust them when troops LIVES may
be on the line---if indeed wmd ARE used. Or is more instillation of the fear factor?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
recycledindi Donating Member (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:56 AM
Response to Original message
18. here's the setup
Edited on Thu Sep-29-05 10:57 AM by recycledindi
so we can nuke em over there and blame it on someone else. wake up people - our government is the real terorrist.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
hadrons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:59 AM
Response to Original message
19. well Abizaid, wasn't it nice of W. to bring in so many troops so close ...
for Al-Qaida to use that WMD (probably pulled from his ass) and cripple the military farther than your master has up to now?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 11:35 AM
Response to Original message
20. terra terra terra! One trick ponies
all. Be afraid citizens and take no notice of the thieves in government stealing everything in sight.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 12:07 PM
Response to Original message
21. Gen.: Troop Withdrawal Hinges on Iraq Vote (more Casey)

http://www.bdtonline.com/articles/2005/09/29/ap/headlines/d8cu0di81.txt

Gen.: Troop Withdrawal Hinges on Iraq Vote


WASHINGTON - U.S. troops could begin coming home from Iraq next year, but it depends on conditions during and after the upcoming elections there, the top U.S. commander in Iraq told Congress on Thursday.

The remarks by Gen. George Casey, along with similar comments he made a day before, represented a softening of his earlier assessment that a "fairly substantial" pullout could begin next spring and summer.

Casey said the result of the upcoming Iraqi referendum on a new constitution on Oct. 15 and December elections will affect whether conditions on the ground will be appropriate for withdrawing U.S. troops.

"The next 75 days are going to be critical for what happens," Casey told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 12:07 PM
Response to Reply #21
22. What happens next year? Does the civil war start then?
Just think of how well trained these soldiers will be thanks to us training them.

The civil war will be much more professional.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 12:07 PM
Response to Reply #21
23. Gen. George Casey= "ASSCLOWN AND LAP DOG"
For the Bush criminals.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 12:07 PM
Response to Reply #21
24. US Commander: Only one Iraqi battalion fully capable
WASHINGTON - The top US commander in Iraq acknowledged Thursday conditions may worsen in Iraq because of Sunni opposition even if a constitution is approved in next month's referendum.

---

The last time Casey reported to Congress several months ago, he said three battalions were fully capable.

"We fully recognize that Iraqi armed forces will not have an independent capability for some time, because they don't have an institutional base to support them," he said. "And so Level One is one battalion."

"It was three. Now it’s gone from three to one?" interjected Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=14664
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 12:07 PM
Response to Reply #24
25. yeah, I heard that one, it was a classic
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 12:07 PM
Response to Reply #25
26. Advance to the rear, or something like that. nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
fshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 12:32 PM
Response to Original message
27. Lol... (I'm sorry, all this becomes montypythoonesque).
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 01:35 PM
Response to Original message
28. Us and Them
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
And the general sat
And the lines on the map
Moved from side to side
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
- Roger Waters

Written some 30-something years ago.
Same ol' song...

Ability To Learn From the Past Ain't Given To The Idiots-In-Charge
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Opusnone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 02:02 PM
Response to Original message
29. They are a threat to big oil and big business
Not to this Nation.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 02:09 PM
Response to Original message
30. I would suggest this book for the general and for all of us:
"The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things" by Barry Glassner. It does not deal with this issue but it shows how we are being manipulated. In example, when they tell us crime rises 50% are they talking about a specific area. The small town I live in had two murders in the last 20 years. When the second one happened the murder rate rose 100% but it did not reflect the state of crime in our town. This is how the bushies keep the people living in fear.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri May 03rd 2024, 03:29 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Latest Breaking News Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC