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Hoping it even goes down more than this today.

By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: December 13, 2006

BAGHDAD, Dec. 12 — The general in day-to-day command of United States troops in Iraq made an impassioned appeal on Tuesday for more time and money to make the American enterprise here work. He suggested that he did not favor a surge in American troop numbers, but rather a new effort to weaken the insurgency by creating jobs for what he called Iraq’s “angry young men.”

The appeal came from Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, who on Thursday will end a yearlong tour as operational commander of the 140,000 United States troops, the second highest-ranking American officer in Iraq. His remarks broke the careful reticence senior American officers here have maintained since a report last week by the Iraq Study Group recommended that all American combat brigades be withdrawn by the first quarter of 2008.

General Chiarelli, said by other senior officers to be among the candidates to succeed Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top United States commander in Iraq, early next year, gave a cagey endorsement to the study group’s deadline. But he emphasized the risks involved if the drawdown goes ahead before Iraq’s own armed forces have established their role as “the primary armed force” in Iraq, capable of fending off insurgent threats to the government.

“Is that something I think that’s possible?” he said, when asked about the 2008 deadline at a news conference marking the end of his tour. “Yeah, I think it’s possible. I think that anything’s possible here. I think that if certain things were to fall in place here very rapidly, that you could see the level of violence go down very, very rapidly.”

But his other remarks reflected what appears to be a broad feeling among American commanders that a 15-month countdown might be too fast. The study group report proposed that after that period, American forces be limited mostly to rapid-reaction and special operations teams, along with as many as 20,000 American advisers with Iraqi forces.

Those forces should concentrate on fighting forces linked to Al Qaeda and acting as a guarantor-of-last-resort for the Iraqi government, the study group said.

“It’s going to take however long it’s going to take,” General Chiarelli said. “And I can’t tell you whether there’s time. But I don’t like any of the alternatives I’ve seen. I just don’t like them.

“I happen to believe that this is the most important conflict that we’ve been involved in in the last 50 years. And I think it’s absolutely essential that we give the Iraqis an opportunity to do exactly what they want to do, and that’s to form their democratic government here in Iraq. And no matter what we say back home, it’s going to take time.”

The general’s remarks took on added significance because of the expected recasting of the military command that could take place after the new defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, is sworn in next week, and visits Baghdad for talks with field commanders.

General Casey, who is 58, has been the overall commander for two and a half years, and is expected to leave before the summer, possibly sooner. In addition to General Chiarelli, two other three-star officers, Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus and Lt. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, are also said to be in line to succeed him in what is now a four-star post here.

Like General Chiarelli, the others did tours as division commanders in Iraq, then returned for second tours, both as commanders of the multibillion-dollar program to train Iraq’s new forces. General Petraeus now heads the army’s Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. General Dempsey is the head of the training program in Baghdad.

Because the Iraq study group’s report and other studies have urged a new emphasis on training and equipping the Iraqi forces, and deploying more American troops in Iraqi units, some senior officers believe General Petraeus or General Dempsey may be preferred when Mr. Gates recommends a new Iraq commander to President Bush.

General Chiarelli’s strengths appear to rest heavily on his reputation as the most outspoken proponent of a counterinsurgency strategy that gives equal or greater weight to social and economic actions aimed at undermining the enemy as it does to force of arms. In Iraq, the military has taken to calling these two strands of strategy kinetic, meaning the use of lethal force, and nonkinetic, meaning efforts to rebuild Iraq’s decrepit infrastructure and create jobs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/13/wo...=1&oref=slogin

Cheers!
DayDream

Originally Posted by ourhouse37

I betcha our Karin has plenty of character. God bless us all everyone, indeed.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by H2O_Lover

I just bought 4k worth of T-Shirt printing/pressing equipment ......so let do it !

i've already patented the slogan GOT DINAR?

so royalties please !!!!

Handyman and Rumfield (Rummy) talking about Iraq, really great stuff! Talking about both the military and political stuff have to go hand in hand with the people of Iraq standing on their own and all the supporting words to educate those that do not have the "whole-picture!"

Must be a special on Iraq!

Originally Posted by garthstar

EXACTLY!!! SO SHUT UP THEN!!! MAN I HATE BORING CONSERVATIVE NEGATIVES!!!

anyone see that futurama episode where santa is a violence crazed robot that sleighs around killing and maiming kids by throwing high velocity toys at them?

blaudy hillarious....!

rest assured KarenC, it WILL HAPPEN b4 christmas. this bubble is just about to burst. HCL is finished, waiting for ratification. we are waiting only for "red tape". these politicians have to get it done b4 they get their holiday. theyll get it done. they want a happy time too. we all do, dont we (so piss off trolls, or else...)
for me, its christmas, and the July b'day i havent yet had, whatever day this dinar baby happens, for the rest of this lifetime!!!

im already looking over holiday rentals in the Caymans, and thinking what recording studio im gona book and boat to charter, plane maybe....!

yeeehah!!!

Originally Posted by bigred52

Buffett probably is heavy in Euros: and to a much lesser degree Dinar

i heard he was all about the DONG !!

..... just can't get over the name of the currency

Originally Posted by mike brown

i've already patented the slogan GOT DINAR?

so royalties please !!!!

LMAO ......... show me the the patented for the slogon ?

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The first political : Cabinet allocated $ 2 billion investment budget of the Ministry of Electricity next year

Power stations stopped from working in Baiji
Baghdad-Tariq Al-Araji
The Council of Ministers has approved the allocation of $ 2 billion investment earmarked for the Ministry of Electricity to implement a number of projects in electricity production throughout the country, especially in the safe areas that led to a technical malfunction in the power station in Baiji to a complete halt.

He said Undersecretary of the Ministry of Electricity Senior Engineer Raad told the guard (morning) : The government ratified the allocation of two billion dollars to implement a number of productive projects and the transfer of energy in different regions of the country within the next year plan (2007) noting that this allocation is significantly compared with what was appropriated in the year (2006), which set at (800) million.

He added goalkeeper that most of the projects as an addendum units obstetric and build stations and the upgrading of the electrical network had not been implemented in the year (2006) so as to the circumstances of the difficult security and the reluctance of experts specialized personnel to travel to Baghdad to build a number of units obstetric and rehabilitate parts of them because of the security conditions, which led to the reluctance of the implementation of the investment plan for the year (2006), pointing out that the guide that lag in the implementation of the plan is not to exploit the sum of (800) million dollars allocated for the budget year (2006).

The undersecretary of the ministry that in the event of continued deterioration of the security situation and lack of backing by the ministries of interior and defense to protect employees of the electricity in the implementation of planned projects within the plan year (2007) it is expected the coming year to witness a modern addition projects stressing the direct entry in the implementation of projects in the safe areas.

On the other hand, an official source at the Ministry of Electricity in a press statement on the power plant thermal electric and gas Mobile in Baiji to technical malfunction led to a complete halt on the work.

He added that a modern hydroelectric been subjected to technical problems because of the military actions in the region noting that the subversive elements also targeted the line between the station and the area west of Baghdad, which resulted in a number of towers is a negative impact in the early hours of the processing power of citizens in the governorates of Anbar, Salah al-Din and Kirkuk.

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The first political : Municipalities refer to the implementation of major projects in the district and sub-district surrounding Baghdad

The cost of 173 billion dinars.
Baghdad-Mahdi Karim Al-Taee

The Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works 69 different projects to be implemented in the district and sub-district around the capital Baghdad, at a total cost of 170 billion dinars allocated for the other three billion to clean these cities and the development of parks.

And said official source in the ministry in a statement to Al "- Sabah" This came during the meeting of the Minister of municipalities Riyad Ghraib with the governor and the Chairman of the Board of Baghdad governorate at the headquarters the preservation yesterday, Tuesday,, explaining that the governorate already forwarded 69 projects for implementation in the sectors of drinking water and municipal and sewerage in areas of the parties to Baghdad, as well as in projects strategic outlook currently being conducted by, including a draft drinking water in the district of Abu Ghraib card 10 thousand cubic meters Day, which also served regions and nearby villages from the judiciary, pointing to monitor the two billion dinars for clean-up operations district and sub-district surrounding Baghdad, and one billion dinars for the construction and development of parks and areas are cleared. The source pointed out that the minister had instructed Ghraib rockets import advanced waste-recycling capacity of 1000 tons per day, and the need to work by the beginning of next year 2007 in order to address the tons of wastes imposed by the Baghdad governorate, as well as to provide municipal services in the district and sub-district specialized mechanisms to support its work and to improve the level of municipal services.

He pointed out that the minister urged municipal managers in the areas of Baghdad parties on the need to direct implementation of the projects, especially ones they possess efficient in this area reflect the aspirations of the ministry in the achievement of the largest projects under the specified times, and not be allowed to stop any project for any reason in order to upgrade the services offered to citizens and alleviate their suffering, which has lasted for many years.