Peace Mother Sheehan Comes To Alabama

July 13, 2007 | By Sniper One |

So Peace Mother Sheehan came to Montgomery this week.

(Montgomery Advertiser) During the news conference, Sheehan repeated her intentions to run for the California congressional seat currently held by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless Pelosi puts impeachment of President Bush “back on the table.”
“If (Pelosi’s) against the war, why isn’t she moving to bring our troops home?” said Sheehan, who became nationally known for her anti-war protests following the death of her son in Iraq.

Do the words “Humanitarian Disaster” have any meaning to you?

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 10, 2007) - Iraqi security forces are not yet ready to secure their country, and if U.S. troops were withdrawn too soon, violence would escalate, a top U.S. commander in the region said Sunday.

“It would be a mess,” Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of coalition forces operating in the region south of Baghdad, said in an interview on CNN’s “Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer.”

“(If) those surge forces go away, that capability goes away, and the Iraqi security forces aren’t ready yet to do that. If you did that, … you’d find the enemy regaining ground, reestablishing sanctuary, building more (improvised explosive devices), carrying those IEDs in Baghdad, and the violence would escalate,” Maj. Gen. Lynch said.

Despite the recent spike in violence in the region, the troop surge is having an effect in his region, Maj. Gen. Lynch said.

The same shortsighted people who are screaming for us to leave Iraq now will be crying in their oatmeal no more than a week after we pull the troops out as they get to watch the country tear itself apart on CNN.

That’s why Congress hasn’t elected to pull the troops out. It’s called “acting responsibility” something that Peace Mother Sheehan wouldn’t be familiar with.

Do you really want to see Iraq become another proxy state for Iran?

“I’m not sure who it is in Iran, but I know Iran is causing problems in my battle space,” he said. “I’ve had 32 EFP strikes. We can trace those back to Iran, no doubt. And we’ve got weapons caches we’re finding with brand-new Iranian munitions - rockets, hand grenades - just yesterday.”

The 3rd Infantry Division commander called the insurgency an evil, vicious enemy who doesn’t care who it kills in the path of striking at U.S. troops. He called for patience as the U.S. military strategy takes time to work.

Things aren’t perfect in Iraq, but then where in the world are they perfect? Progress is being made, albeit slowly.

“We have killed 50 of the enemy. We have captured over 250 more. We have taken away 50 weapons caches. And we are having an effect. So it’s going to take time for these surge units to have the effect that we want,” Maj. Gen. Lynch said. “It can’t happen overnight.”

Maj. Gen. Lynch avoided putting a timeline on combat operations in the area, saying there are too many factors outside of U.S. control. He said it would take through September to clear just his battle space.

After the area is cleared, though, additional troops are required to hold the area to prevent re-entry by insurgents. How long U.S. troops are there is dependent on how fast the Iraqis can build and train their force.

“The holding piece is going to take a lot of time. We have got to have a sustained security presence so that the enemy can’t just come back,” Maj. Gen. Lynch said. “People keep wanting to put a timeframe on this. It’s just not possible. There are too many conditions that we don’t control. “

This isn’t a simple operation, this is war. Things are complex in war. The enemy is doing everything it can to win. We must do everything we can to succeed. Lives depend on it.

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