President Bush preparing for Iraqi Contingencies!
2nd Persian Gulf U.S. Naval Buildup in Four Months!
January 5, 2007
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It would appear that the U.S. Naval buildup, which was associated with the ending of the Hizbollah-Israel Conflict, is continuing. The primary purpose of this buildup would be to cover two contingencies: (1) Quick backup reaction if the planned increase in U.S. land troops does not lead to signs of eventual victory, and they appear to suddenly be in need of quick backup air and marine forces to hold their positions, or (2) If it becomes apparent that U.S. forces cannot bring the guerilla terrorist forces under control, then the firepower and airpower of the naval forces will be used to allow a uniform organized manner of withdrawal by the U.S. forces.
I have never seen the Middle East and worldwide policy in such a state of flux, with no nation, except perhaps Iran, seeming to know quite what to do next. The Democratically controlled Congress will put up a fight on troop increases in Iraq, and the Israeli Prime Minister is up to his armpits in alligators.
Whoever wins the 2008 election for President will inherit the biggest mass of confusion in the United States and across the remainder of this planet that has ever existed in the history of mankind. I am certainly likely to go on
to be with the Lord during the term of the next President, because I will be near 80 when it ends, and I am indeed looking forward to a soon departure from this earthly mess. However, I do feel guilty in leaving my three generations of offspring behind in this boiling cauldron of confusion and evil, even though I know my being here will not help, because there is nothing I can do to help them or the world situation. And, in all honesty, I know the same Lord, who gave me a wonderful wife, brought me through two wars, helped my wife raise seven children when I was on assignment or later on in revival, and kept me 33 years as the pastor of Dardanelle MBC, will also bring them through whatever lies ahead for them.
So, when the bell tolls for me, sing no sad songs
for me, only for yourself, in that you are going to have to wait for a catching out from this maze of real confusion, while I already am waiting in heaven for you.
Begin DEBKAfile Article
DEBKAfile: Two new steps taken by President Bush support the revised Iraq strategy under development in the White House
January 4, 2007, 9:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
The US president has decided to shift John Negroponte out of the job
of National Intelligence Director after 20 months and appoint him deputy secretary of state, as weighty backup for Condoleezza Rice. The USS John C.
Stennis strike group will this month join the USS Dwight Eisenhower aircraft carrier group and USS Boxer strike force in the Persian Gulf “as a warning to Syria and Iran” in face of acts seen as provocative, and to give commanders more flexibility in the region. Continuation of Iran’s banned nuclear activities would come under the heading of “provocative.”
This is the second buildup of US naval, air and marine strength in the strategic waterway in four months. Deployment of the Stennis group puts a total of 16,000 US sailors in the region as well as another nuclear carrier and 7 escort warships, 10 air squadrons, 2 submarines and helicopters to support amphibious landings on enemy soil.
DEBKAfile’s military experts see in the new deployment evidence that President George W. Bush has rejected the key Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group’s recommendation to engage Iran and Syria, for an exit strategy on Iraq. He has instead come down finally behind his own fundamental conviction that the Iraq war is winnable and Iran can be simultaneously confronted.
Tuesday, Jan. 2, The New York Times reported that the commander of US forces in Iraq Gen.
John C asey w
as on his way out, accused of placing a policy
of withdrawal ahead of winning the war.
This grave charge is tantamount to flouting the commander in chief’s directives. Reports of Casey’s coming dismissal are further evidence of Bush’s resolve to pursue a proactive policy on Iraq and Iran rather than accept defeat.
End DEBKAfile Article
Being retired from the military, I pray daily for out men and women in harm’s way, having paid my dues in Vietnam. I do understand what they are going through, and what it means to be fighting in a country when the majority of the American public wants to pull us out and bring us home. I support our troops 100 percent and love them for the job they are doing. I love my Commander-in-Chief, President George Bush, and was 100 percent behind what he did when he issued the order to invade Iraq.
But I was never in favor of our staying and attempting to turn Iraq into a democracy, because I believed long before we went into Iraq that a lasting democracy could not be established prior to the Second Advent of Christ.
I was always in favor of going in, capturing or killing Saddam and his cronies and, when this had been done, getting out in a pre-planned, protected withdrawal, in order to let other Arab countries know it would happen to them if they became a world military threat. My President is an honorable man, and I have no criticism of him or his actions. I pray that God will lead him and he will follow, as God leads
him in the most difficult two years he has ever faced. He desperately needs the prayers of us all, regardless of political party affiliation.
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