Re: [Marxism] Gonzalez

["Ruthless Critic of All that Exists" <ok.president+marxml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Eli Stephens
<elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  AH writes:
>  "He [Obama] has called for a residual force (meaning less than a brigade,
>  meaning at most a couple of thousand soldiers) to protect US civilians and
>  diplomats (good for him) and a small force to go after the 200 or 300 al 
> Qaeda
>  operatives."
>
>  200 or 300 al Qaeda operatives? You must be kidding. The U.S. military 
> reports
>  killing that many members of al Qaeda practically every week! As I wrote 
> about
>  here most recently
>  (http://lefti.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html#8600404296206342021) but 
> also
>  on many previous occasions, if you read the news, virtually EVERY attack on
>  "insurgents" in the media is described as having been against "al Qaeda."
>  Claiming you are opposed to having troops in Iraq except for fighting al 
> Qaeda
>  (oh, and except for protecting U.S. personnel including OTHER U.S. troops and
>  training Iraqi troops) basically means you aren't for a pullout at all.

That is how the Bush administration may describe them (calling any and
all attack on "insurgents" as attack on al Qaeda),  since the Bush
administration has astrong incentive to do so (it wants to keep the
troops deployed), but it does not necessarily follow that a future
Obama administration will have the sameincentive to use such a
description (especially, if it wants to pull out troops).

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