General Barbara Fast: " Military is not going to win this war..."

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Wednesday December 14, 2005 · 7:09 PM PST

2005/12/14 · 19:09

While Bill O'Reilly, Michael Reagan and other hate radio pundits call for Howard Dean to be tried for treason and hung for suggesting the war in Iraq cannot be won, General Barbara Fast last week in the Sierra Vista Herald had this to say about the Iraq Mission:

"One of the things I wanted to do was to take a look at the training that we at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center are doing in Iraq," Fast said.

One of the United States' strategies is to train Iraqi security forces to function on their own, the general said.

"The (U.S.) military is not going to win this war, nor should we expect the military to win the war," she said.

It isn't that Fast is a defeatist, but she was taking a realistic approach.

"The whole thing is going to be won and decided by the Iraqi people," Fast said. "That's what is going to dictate success."
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