Lounsbury: Circus-III

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August 24, 2003

Circus-III

A take away, to use that ugly business phrase, from this weeks meetings.

(a) The Reconstruction effort as presently constructed is doomed. The people running this are either clowns, too inexperienced or capable people thrown into the quicksand, which the ideologues in the Adminstration refuse to acknowledge as such. Nor are they going to get better. I can report that the CPA-I asked the deputy chair of the Jordanian Securities Commission to join them (nice little old man Mr. Abdeljaber) and he refused, as they can't provide him with security. Mr. Abdeljaber worked in Iraq and has real Iraq experience, but these characters are offering bullshit salaries and no fucking security.

Oh yes on the UN bombing, I heard from the horses mouth (i.e. from an American military official) that the US military had not provided full security to the UN as quite simply they don't like the UN presence. This asshole then told me that he expected the UN would have to stop being so arrogant.

Good fucking lord, what a fucking circus. The UN too arrogant, these fucking DOD clowns not only don't know what the fuck they are doing, they don't even know that they are the fucking problem.

(b) Perhaps more resources may come. See
McCain: More Troops for Iraq
By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 24, 2003; Page A17
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37101-2003Aug23.html

McCain is quoted as saying that he will start a campaign for more resources for Iraq after having toured the country.

Quoting:
"Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said after visiting Baghdad last week that President Bush needs to level with the public about the need for more U.S. troops as well as dramatically more spending to make postwar Iraq peaceful enough for democracy to unfold.
Click here!

McCain said that, when he returns from the Middle East, he plans to mount a heavy campaign on the issue in meetings with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and other White House officials and during hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee."

Will this get anywhere?

I hope it will, this sitution is getting grimer and grimer and frankly I am becoming concerned for security spill over. After speaking with some sources here, we all had the sensation that it may only be a matter of time before Iraqi insecurity and the generally poor border controls opens the door for major terror action against "American friendly regimes" in the neighborhood.

One need only a construction truck and explosives hidden inside the material. Boom boom.

August 24, 2003

Circus-III

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