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Offline Rictor

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on: August 15, 2004, 10:56:05 am
http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/thu/aug12w19.htm

Apparently, Mr.Wolfowitz has a cunning plan

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Pentagon urged Congress Tuesday to authorize US$500 million for building a network of friendly militias around the world to purge terrorists from "ungoverned areas" and warned Muslim clerics against providing "ideological sanctuary" to radicals. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the Iraq war, told the House Armed Services Committee the money would be used "for training and equipping local security forces-- not just armies -- to counter terrorism and insurgencies."

Hell, it worked so well in Afghanistan in the 80s, so why not...

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Offline Hippo

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Reply #1 on: August 15, 2004, 11:16:16 am
has the word 'Backfire' written all over it...
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Reply #2 on: August 15, 2004, 11:30:02 am
Heh, free Terrorist training camps, book here... :rolleyes:
 

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Reply #3 on: August 15, 2004, 11:30:07 am
You do have to wonder how many times they're going to burn themselves on this red hot poker before they realise they shouldn't be trying to pick it up :rolleyes:
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Offline Rictor

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Reply #4 on: August 15, 2004, 11:34:13 am
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has the word 'Backfire' written all over it...


Blowback - an official CIA term for the unexpected negative consequences of usually illegal US operations in foreign nations.
 

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Reply #5 on: August 15, 2004, 11:34:55 am
that too
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Reply #6 on: August 15, 2004, 11:44:32 am
Backfire, blowback, blowjob, it doesn't really matter - the end result is more state sponsored terror.
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Offline magatsu1

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Reply #7 on: August 15, 2004, 12:23:06 pm
proping up local dictators/militia, then deciding their presence is a credable threat to security doesn't do your credability any good neither..:blah:
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Offline Tiara

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Reply #8 on: August 15, 2004, 12:47:38 pm
Putting militias in a possibly hostile enviroment... Yeah, I think the words 'blowback' and 'backfire' pretty much describe it. :blah:
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Reply #9 on: August 15, 2004, 12:55:52 pm
How about screwup and whackjob? ;)
 

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Reply #10 on: August 15, 2004, 01:22:05 pm
Oh great, they want create another terrorist group, That is most worst thing they can do they didn't learn from Afganistan surely
US don't want copy of Bin laden it's seems that they didn't learn from mistakes or ever will be..
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Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Reply #11 on: August 15, 2004, 01:37:01 pm
Most people learn from experience...
 

Offline Moonsword

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Reply #12 on: August 15, 2004, 01:51:36 pm
And unfortunately, Bush doesn't have any with foreign relations... or at least, he didn't before he started learning how to **** them up.
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Reply #13 on: August 15, 2004, 01:55:18 pm
We are the Palestinian Capitalistic Army! We want to bring Big Macs and Virtual Slave Labour to our people! Come, let us learn how Americans fight and where the weak spots are on the Vehicles they have... so that we may improve upon them :nervous:
 

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Reply #14 on: August 15, 2004, 02:00:49 pm
Can I get sponsorship?
lol wtf
 

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Reply #15 on: August 15, 2004, 02:50:10 pm
God, this is rich. It really does scream "hegemony."
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Reply #16 on: August 15, 2004, 05:27:29 pm
Well, the US has already dived headlong into outsourcing tech jobs to India ( :wtf: ), why not outsource the war on terror to... "militias"?

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Reply #17 on: August 15, 2004, 05:30:13 pm
They've already outsourced the war to "security contractors", like CACI, Tempest and Blackwater. Mercs now make up the second largest force in Iraq, next to the US.

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Reply #18 on: August 15, 2004, 05:34:14 pm
there going to try this AGAIN!?!
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Reply #19 on: August 16, 2004, 03:25:49 am
But they're FRIENDLY militants!:)

That's good enough for me! :D
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