Harper's: Former official says Bush mulling sending American troops to Leb

[banana republican]

"well-connected former CIA officer" has told Harper's Magazine Washington bureau chief that the Bush Administration is considering deploying US troops to Lebanon, according to a post at the magazine's website (RAW STORY has excerpted the post below because the site loads slowly when we link directly). Harper's post is here.

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The uniformed military, however, is ardently opposed to sending American soldiers to the region, according to my source. “They are saying 'What the fuck?'” he told me. “Most of our combat-ready divisions are in Iraq or Afghanistan, or on their way, or coming back. The generals don't like it because we're already way overstretched.”

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Harpers_Former_official_says_Bush_mulling_0726.html

WTF Indeed...

Who gave * the authority????

ON EDIT: When we we going to invade Iran????

[wakeme2008]

1. Just what we need is permanent bases in Lebanon

:grr:

[heliarc]

4. To quote Snow Job

"Depends on what you mean by permanent"

[saigon68]

7. Sounds Like a Plan to me

A hateful Nut-Case Chimpanzee getting in a fight between 2 gangs of thugs and murderers

One group of which he has armed with the latest weapons

[heliarc]

2. What What What???

Reminds me of that scene from Der Untergang ("Downfall") when chimpy's hero Adolph in his bunker towards the end starts ordering troops he doesn't have or have been decimated already...

Kidding aside. I certainly hope that they have their "heart in the right place" cause I wouldn't mind having someone oversee the situation there and keep the peace (Like Finland) or at least monitor WTF Israel is doing, but I have a problem trusting this administration with complex military problems that don't involve killing or torturing civilians and subjecting random people to detention without trial.

[panader0]

3. Where are these troops going to come from?

I thought the big new offensive in Baghdad was going to take up most of the available soldiers.

[heliarc]

6. I think we should ...

Give Jenna, Laura and Noelle with a hand grenade and send them over. Is that a start?

[Rose Siding]

5. The law gives him the authority for brief deployments, I believe

Just one more good reason that we voted against him.

[Moderator]

8. duplicate

of moved post
rawstory is not the original source. The earlier post was moved for editorializing and speculation.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x224740