Quote of the Day !!

[Dracos]

"It doesn't matter how bad Iraq gets, it's not
going to get better by us staying there.
-- Gen. William Odom,


Odom was director of the NSA under Reagan
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/02/18/odom/index.html?source=rss

[helderheid]

1. K & R

[frogcycle]

2. says it all

[Hamlette]

3. My favorite part of the interview. . .

HH: Did you predict or see coming the Cambodian holocaust after our withdrawal from Southeast Asia?


WO: That would have happened if we’d stayed.


HH: But did you predict it?


WO: We didn’t…we were not in Cambodia.


HH: But did you…


WO: We perpetrate that.


HH: Did you or anyone you work with at the time see it coming? Did you see the reeducation camps in Vietnam?


WO: No, we didn’t. I wasn’t focused on that then. I was focused on Vietnam.


HH: And what about the reeducation camps and the boat people?


WO: Well, what about them?


HH: Did we foresee that? Did anyone sit down…


WO: Well, we said that things much worse than that were going to happen.


HH: John Kerry, when he testified before the Senate, actually thought it would be a couple of thousand people that would be…


WO: Well, I’m not John Kerry, and I don’t…I’m not defending John Kerry’s position. I’m saying the big scare in Southeast Asia was that there will be a whole group of countries that became pro-Soviet bloc, and pro-Chinese. Well, two more went communist, but they were not pro-Chinese. We were pursuing a war to contain China, the Soviet policy had become containing China. We were presenting a half a million U.S. troops in pursuit of Soviet foreign policy objectives. Right now, we are pursuing al Qaeda and Iranian foreign policy objectives in Iraq."

As Mark Twain said: History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme.