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ericgunde... (0:01)
2 years ago 0 + -Ah, an oil company ad right before distorted news about Iraq :) Awesome placement guys...
ericgunde... (0:03)
2 years ago 0 + -Remember Philip Carroll, the former CEO of Shell Oil in the US was appointed to control of Iraq's oil production for the US government right after the invasion: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm
ericgunde... (0:14)
2 years ago 0 + -Here is a link to the full report thanks to the Washington Post: http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/McCaffrey_Report_032707.pdf
ericgunde... (0:37)
2 years ago 0 + -Ok, that is from the last page of the report.... to make this a little more fair and balanced the report starts out with "Iraq is ripped by a low grade civil war which has worsened to catastrophic levels with as many as 3000 citizens murdered per month. The population is in despair. Life in many of the urban areas is now desperate."
ericgunde... (0:59)
2 years ago 0 + -Another favorite quote that O'Reilly leaves off "In summary, the US Armed Forces are in a position of strategic peril."
ericgunde... (1:12)
2 years ago 0 + -O'Reilly is right I could not find it on the NYT: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/barry_r_mccaffrey/index.html?8qa
ericgunde... (1:14)
2 years ago 0 + -Nope - it was posted on KOS: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/28/111650/243
ericgunde... (1:18)
2 years ago 0 + -From the repot: "The democratic control of Congress and its vocal opposition can actually provide a helpful
framework" pg 7
ericgunde... (1:47)
2 years ago 0 + -Let it all play out eh?... also from the report: "The US Armed Forces cannot sustain the current deployment rate. We will leave the nation at risk to other threats from
new hostile actors if we shatter the capabilities of our undersized and under-resourced Army, Marine, and special
operations forces." pg 7