Monday, August 29, 2005
Militiary RhetIraq: Gen. Myers
Who: General Richard Myers (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Source: Telegraph UK
Quotes:
An early withdrawal of troops from Iraq could send Middle Eastern regimes tumbling, destabilise the world economy and unleash a massive wave of terrorist attacks, America's top soldier warned yesterday.
"It would be instant instability in that region, in Saudi Arabia, on down the Gulf states, perhaps Iran, Syria, Turkey."
"Just economically, it would be instability of the sort that would affect the globe, and then they [the terrorists] would keep pressing on, they would continue their movement and it would involve, in my view it would involve terrorist incidents certainly that would expand.
"The most important thing we have... right now in this kind of conflict is our will and our resolve. I think it's incumbent on the national leadership, writ large, to help communicate this to the American public."
Source: Telegraph UK
Quotes:
An early withdrawal of troops from Iraq could send Middle Eastern regimes tumbling, destabilise the world economy and unleash a massive wave of terrorist attacks, America's top soldier warned yesterday.
"It would be instant instability in that region, in Saudi Arabia, on down the Gulf states, perhaps Iran, Syria, Turkey."
"Just economically, it would be instability of the sort that would affect the globe, and then they [the terrorists] would keep pressing on, they would continue their movement and it would involve, in my view it would involve terrorist incidents certainly that would expand.
"The most important thing we have... right now in this kind of conflict is our will and our resolve. I think it's incumbent on the national leadership, writ large, to help communicate this to the American public."
