Posted by Sigismund on June 12, 2007, at 18:19:45
In reply to Son-In-Law back to Iraq in December for year, posted by fayeroe on June 11, 2007, at 21:06:52
There was an interesting discusion I heard on Iraq. Gwynn Dyer, the Canadian military expert said that the decision to withdraw the troops would be made within hours of the US Presidential election (whoever won?) (allowing, presumably for the 40,000 permanently based there in the 5 new bases). Eliot Weinberger wondered about the Administration trying one last roll of the dice in Iran, but felt that the army would rather stage a coup than try that. Then, I thought, there is the possiblility of another terrorist attack and our politics being thrown even further out of whack. Alison Bronowski spoke persuasively about the peril that these policies have placed Australia (and by extension the US) in. And as you know Andrew Bacevich did not turn up because his son had been killed in Iraq. Incidentally his replacement mentioned a death figure that I had never heard asserted before, and which I assume cannot be right....something like 800,000 dead, something like 4,000,000 displaced. Hopefully the more moderate 400,000 is the the better estimate.
Not a lot of comfort, is it Pat?
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