Pentagon says War on Terror to end Oct 2008 - just before election

[Poiuyt]

Pentagon's number two suggests terror war will end in Oct. 2008
Michael Roston
Published: Wednesday February 28, 2007


The Department of Defense's number two official appears to imply in a memo that the Global War on Terrorism will end just in time for the presidential election in November 2008. The contents of the document are outlined in a column in today's Washington Post.

Al Kamen, who writes the Post's 'In The Loop' column, identified a pair of memos written by Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England in today's paper. The first memo was written Dec. 6 and sent to top military and civilian officials. It identifies eight priorities for the coming fiscal year, and the first of them is to "Win the Global War on Terrorism."

In a second memo from Feb. 15, Kamen reports that England wrote that "to ensure that warfighters and taxpayers receive maximum benefit from on-going initiatives, it would be highly desirable to complete current projects by the summer/fall of 2008."

England then provides a quarterly grid with the same eight priorities from the December memo, and "expected milestone conclusion dates" for each one.

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagons_number_two_suggests_terror_war_0228.html

[babylonsister]

1. Is this that same war they were saying would last for decades? nt

[Monkeyman]

2. Yep never trust anything DOD says

[City Lights]

3. How convenient.

Sounds like a timetable to me. Jag offs.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. switching on and off a war on terror?

not simply a faucet

[A Simple Game]

5. No, it is not simply a faucet.

It must be two faucets, one marked terrorist and the other marked insurgent.

At the same time you are shutting off the terrorist faucet, you turn on the insurgent faucet.

It's simple, both faucets are supplied by the same source, but they have different names.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. you'll have to explain that to Bush

he might get it finally

[A Simple Game]

7. I doubt it.

They already know that to combat mind sets and ideals you can't use weapons, you must give rise to new ideals and mind sets.

The best ways to combat terrorism are to eliminate poverty, ignorance, poor sanitation, poor health, etc. The problem is, all those take money away from the rich, not give it to them.

[jsamuel]

8. ...

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