http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/11/08/time-for-hard-truths/ Missives From the Reality-Based World Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:46:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/11/08/time-for-hard-truths/comment-page-1/#comment-377 Bush: Off by an Order of Magnitude at The Indigestible Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:30:01 +0000 http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/11/08/time-for-hard-truths/#comment-377 [...] As I wrote back in November, we can’t reinstitute a draft, and we’re going to be hard pressed to summon the troops we need to really have a successful occupation of Iraq — particularly in light of the problems going on in the Sudan, Iran and North Korea. What that means is we have to apologize to the world that we pissed off and ask for the assistance of our allies in shoring up our numbers; not just for our own security, but for that of the planet we all have the frequent exasperation of sharing. [...] […] As I wrote back in November, we can’t reinstitute a draft, and we’re going to be hard pressed to summon the troops we need to really have a successful occupation of Iraq — particularly in light of the problems going on in the Sudan, Iran and North Korea. What that means is we have to apologize to the world that we pissed off and ask for the assistance of our allies in shoring up our numbers; not just for our own security, but for that of the planet we all have the frequent exasperation of sharing. […]

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