(2006-11-20) — According to a newly pre-released secret Pentagon document, the U.S. military is considering three options for dealing with the situation in Iraq, dubbed ‘Go Public, Go Home and Go Mecca.’
The unnamed Pentagon official in charge of leaking national security secrets to the Washington Post said it’s possible that the U.S. could adopt some combination of the three.
He summarized the strategy options as follows:
1. Go Public: Consistently leak top-secret Pentagon strategy deliberations to the news media as a way of neutralizing the unfair “element of surprise”, and of building trust by being more transparent with the enemy.
2. Go Home: Remove the only reason for terrorism by bringing all U.S. troops back home, and also allowing all U.S.-trained Iraqi troops to emigrate to the U.S.
3. Go Mecca: Deal “head on” with the heart of the conflict, by amending the U.S. Constitution to bring it into compliance with Islamic Sharia law.
45 responses so far ↓
1 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 20, 2006 at 11:36 am
God Bless America
2 bystander // Nov 20, 2006 at 11:49 am
God bless Bush for asserting that there is no civil war in Iraq.
Might as well assert that the government’s scientists have confirrned that the Moon is indeed made of Cheddar Cheese !
3 nylecoj // Nov 20, 2006 at 12:11 pm
official in charge of leaking national security secrets
That is priceless
4 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 20, 2006 at 12:18 pm
There is no civil war in Iraq.
Unless your definition of “civil war” would include a war between rival gangs in one of the major cities here in the USA as such.
5 Darthmeister // Nov 20, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Give you
three guessesone guess what the cut-and-run crowd wants to do to turn Iraq into another bona fide Vietnam syndrome.Ever since 9/11, the peace-at-any cost liberals have a deadly case of wish-fulfillment.
6 Darthmeister // Nov 20, 2006 at 12:38 pm
JL3rd, what is happening in Iraqi is pure ISLAMIC SECTARIAN violence. I wish someone would explain to me how a “religion of peace” can involve itself not only in fraticide but also engage in violence against Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and pagans around the world explicitly in the name of Islam and Allah. It’s not even a nationalistic movement with secular aims.
Henry Kissinger is right, there is no conventional military solution when you have a bunch of Islamic nutbags running around killing everything in sight to advance their ideology of hate. The Iraqi people themselves and Islamic leaders must step forward and demonstrate to us that Islam can be a moderate religion in the 21st Century.
7 Darthmeister // Nov 20, 2006 at 12:48 pm
How can there be “civil war” when there is little among Iraqi Muslims, past or present, which is even civil? This is pure religious sectarian violence being committed in the name of Islam. Even our own “Civil War” was more properly understood as a “War Between the States”, but I’ve given up hope that liberal trolls would exercise any honest nuance which runs contrary to their left-wing mantra. Calling it the “War Between the States” didn’t make that war any less bloody but it certainly gets to what the real issues were that eventually led brother to kill brother in some case … states rights, slavery, federalism, etc.
Trolls just love tossing around provocative and often pejorative terms without any facts to back them up.
8 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 20, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Well, Kissinger blabbing that “civil war” garbage to the BBC is just more of the same political drivel that got us into this in the first place.
I have NO respect for those politicians who go on self-aggrandizing foreign tours second-guessing our military commanders, undermining our efforts and demoralizing our troops. None.
Kissinger and Sheehan would make a great duo.
9 Zim // Nov 20, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Please not number 3! My wife is too beautiful for a burqa.
10 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 20, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Our news outlets have more cameras and commentary on the imbecilic protesters than they do on the President or his goals for this trip.
The official language of Indonesia is Indonesian, yet many of the gigantic signs we see the “protesters” waving like maniacs are extremely legible, professionally crafted and written in English. Wonder why?
That kind of stuff just gives me a rash.
11 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 20, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Some Indonesian phrases:
I haven’t done anything wrong.
Saya tidak bersalah. (…)
It was a misunderstanding.
Itu salah paham. (…)
Where are you taking me?
Saya dibawa ke mana ? (…)
Am I under arrest?
Apakah saya ditahan ? (…)
I am an American/Australian/British/Canadian citizen.
Saya warganegara Amerika /Australia / Inggris / Kanada. (…)
I want to talk to the American/Australian/British/Canadian embassy/consulate.
Saya ingin bicara dengan Kedutaan Besar/Konsulat Amerika / Australia / Inggris / Kanada. (…)
I want to talk to a lawyer.
Saya mau bicara dengan pengacara/advokat. (…)
Can I just pay a fine here now?
Bisakah saya bayar denda di tempat saja? (…)
12 azredneck // Nov 20, 2006 at 1:29 pm
I thought it was Dim senators on the intelligence committee that leaked, rather than the Pentagon???
13 Laughing@You // Nov 20, 2006 at 2:01 pm
“Trolls just love tossing around provocative and often pejorative terms without any facts to back them up.”
Trolls, you say?
14 Laughing@You // Nov 20, 2006 at 2:06 pm
JL3CPO,
Re: 11
It appears you are bi-ignorant.
15 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 20, 2006 at 2:07 pm
rah, rah, rah Go Mecca, go Mecca. Nope that won’t work, you can’t do a cartwheel in a burka
16 Laughing@You // Nov 20, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Ms Rightwing, Ink:
Ask Hank to show you, he does it all the time.
17 robertb689 // Nov 20, 2006 at 2:28 pm
This just in …
General McClellan is reporting that the Civil War in which we are engaged is unwinnable.
“Our alternatives are Go Big, Go Long (street), or Go Home”
Of course, with the Army of the Potomac sitting north of the Potomac facing the vanguard of the rebels in Virginia on the South, the option to go home is limited without the loss of the capital.
Go Big. General McClellan is willing either to wait for reinforcements or to have him and his troops eat themselves to enlargement in their present position.
Go Longstreet. Signifies that the Generals of the North and South should get together and decide the future of the nation.
Attempts to get comments from President Lincoln on this initiative were inconclusive.
18 Laughing@You // Nov 20, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Note: Indonesia
John Mark Karr (JonBenét Ramsey case) was arrested in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia is said to be a Center of Child Porn activity.
19 Finally, there’s a plan « Buttle’s World // Nov 20, 2006 at 2:54 pm
[...] Go Public. Go Home. Go Mecca. [...]
20 Darthmeister // Nov 20, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Well, well, well, the Donks haven’t even assumed control of Congress and already the lamestream media is trumpeting such good economic news.
Hmmmmm, looks like a new media narrative to usher in the coming Democratic utopia or else the lamestream media couldn’t keep the good economic news in their lockbox any more. Of course, any new jobs created during the Bush Administration offer little more than minimum wage while all the wonderful, high-paying jobs created during the Clinton Administration were outsourced to India.
21 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 20, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Nobody stopped by the Cafe yesterday. So did I forget to turn on the lights or what?
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF CARTER EDWARDS:
CHAPTER ONE CARTER BECOMES A BUSINESS TYCOON
http://shellyscafe.blogspot.com/
22 FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog » Iraq War Watch: Go Big, Go Long Or Go Home? // Nov 20, 2006 at 4:08 pm
[...] But, Flap thought the Democrats had a plan for the Iraq War? Is this it? [...]
23 RedPepper // Nov 20, 2006 at 4:57 pm
#21 MsRW : You need a Site Meter . People just love to watch the numbers go up. ‘Member riding in the car & watching the speedometer turn a new number ending in 2 or 3 zeroes ? Or even more ?
24 RedPepper // Nov 20, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Joshua fit the battle of … Tehran ?!?!?
Oh no … religion of
peacepieces …25 Darthmeister // Nov 20, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Unelected Mexican Leftist Starts Parallel Government
Sounds just like something liberal/leftists would do. Sore LOZERS!
Anti-War Activists Plan “Global Orgasm for Peace”
Sounds just like something brain-dead liberals would do.
CONTROLLED CHAOS: European Cities Do Away with Traffic Signs…
Sounds just like something liberals and anarchists would do.
26 Never Yet Melted » Go Public, Go Home, Go Mecca // Nov 20, 2006 at 6:48 pm
[...] Scrappleface leaks the real [...]
27 Bill's Bites // Nov 20, 2006 at 7:21 pm
Secret U.S. Iraq Plan: Go Public, Go Home, Go Mecca…
Secret U.S. Iraq Plan: Go Public, Go Home, Go MeccaScott Ott (2006-11-20) — According to a newly pre-released secret Pentagon document, the U.S. military is considering three options for dealing with the situation in Iraq, dubbed ‘Go Public, Go Hom…
28 Jericho // Nov 20, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Go Mecca is also known as the Don McClain option or to insiders as the day the musis died option.
29 conserve-a-tips // Nov 20, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Y’all have this all wrong. I realize that it is easy to misunderstand what comes out of the Pentagon, but just look at the facts. Go Public, Go Home, Go Mecca…we’ve been talking football here, but what does the world call football???? Soccer, man. Don’t you get it?
Go Public - the American team, ie Publix, and somebody misspelled it - can we say American grocery store? Duh.
Go Home - Rootin’ fer thet home tame, boyz.
Go Mecca - can we say Saudi Arabia, here? The opposite of downhome grocery folks is fatcat oil barons, right?
It is so obvious. We’ve been given a secret code to tell us who is going to be duking it out at the World Cup finals 2007 and the home team is gonna win. The fix is in. It is so obvious. Can’t believe y’all missed it.
Any takers?
Don’t you see? This is secret code to give us the hint on whom to place our bets in the
30 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 20, 2006 at 8:13 pm
RedPepper
I once tried to install a site meter on my blog but it never worked. Not a real brain when it comes to new ideas with computers. Once someone shows me then I am good to go
31 conserve-a-tips // Nov 20, 2006 at 8:21 pm
Well, hmm. On #29, don’t know where that last line showed up from. Twilight zone…see?? Told ya.
32 conserve-a-tips // Nov 20, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Ms Rightwing, Ink: I am with you on the technology thing there! I have been struggling just to keep my head above water with all of you on here with all of the tricks to embolden, italicize, strike, ect and ect. It is fun to learn new things, but this graying, bumfuzzled brain gets a might stretched sometimes!
33 bystander // Nov 20, 2006 at 8:50 pm
“There is no civil war in Iraq.” So says the illustrious and learned JamesonLewis3rd !
I guess the moon is made of cheddar cheese in your view.
Funny, it looks like a civil war, it feels like a civil war, people are getting killed, kidnapped, and their pieces and parts blown all over Iraq on a daily basis.
They said that Vietnam was not a war. They said it was a ‘conflict’. How many thousands died horribly conflicted ?
Talk to the relatives and loved ones of folks who died. Do you think this semantic bulldung is meaningful to them ?
Don’t be a fool and get hung on Bushist semantics.
34 bystander // Nov 20, 2006 at 9:00 pm
“… the real issues were that eventually led brother to kill brother in some case … states rights, slavery, federalism, etc.”
Are you deluding yourself Darthman ?
Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites want their rights as well and each group is doing everything possible to make sure that the other group does not get into a position to hold sway over them, such as the Sunnis held for many years. Not much different then the North vs the South. And then you have the outsider terrorists running amuck as well.
Seems to me if one State here was dictating to all the other states, civil war with all its murderous mayhem and violence would erupt here as well. Our civilized veneer is might thin !
35 egospeak // Nov 20, 2006 at 9:00 pm
I wonder if the unnamed Pentagon official responsible for leaking national security secrets to the Washington Post is any relation to the one doing the leaking to the New York Times? Inquiring minds want to know. Well… I do.
Regards,
36 sturat // Nov 20, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Seems like the Pentagon is omitting the obvious Mickey D option: Go Large!
open up Baghdad to the capitalist franchising and everybody will be so busy chasing money or getting fat on burgers and fries they’ll ignore the political operatives (non-LSM would call them “terrorists”, but that’s such a pejorative term).
Actually, the money is on the “Go Rangel” option, draft all the eligible 16 - 35 year old Iraqi males into the Iraqi military. It’s called universal conscription. The only ones left will be terrorists, who by definition don’t wear uniforms, or swear allegiance to a country. Therefore, any male in Iraq not in the miltary would be fair game. Throw in the Republic of Korea’s military concept of summary execution authority for their commanders, and anyone showing insubordination toward the military will rapidly be dispatched to meet with Allah.
Gotta love it.
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38 conserve-a-tips // Nov 20, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Re #34:
Let me see if I have this right. In Tulsa, the percentage of homicides that are gang related has jumped to 25% as have those in Oklahoma City. In Tulsa, the largest gang is the Hoover Crips, with over 1000 members, followed by the Neighborhood Crips and the Red Mob Gangsters. Oh yes, and while most of the gangs are black and hispanic, we can’t forget the Japanese Black Emperors. In 2002, there were only 7 gang related homicides. Today the numbers are as stated above.
In OKC, there are somewhere around 90 gangs that include over 5000 members. Just this past month, a group of gang thugs were driving down a street, shooting into homes and killed a little 9 yr old boy sleeping in his bed. Another 16 year old was shot dead two weeks ago, answering his door. The gang members hide and blend in with families and even innocent family members get taken out. The gang situation has even affected our beautiful tourist area, Bricktown.
So, I guess that I am to assume, by your definition, that we are in the midst of a civil war and the police should just pull out. Right. I am sure that you would say that until someone shot up your house.
39 Fred Sinclair // Nov 20, 2006 at 11:33 pm
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Does anyone know what this means? No wonder I’m so dumb with computers.
Fred Sinclair, Heirborn Ranger
40 Fred Sinclair // Nov 21, 2006 at 12:00 am
If the Liberal Left is telling us the truth and they really want to “bring the troops home”, then I think they may have a problem with Germany, Japan, So. Korea etc. when all of the American troops pack up and leave their countries, along with the billions of dollars the troops will no longer be spending.
The bright side will be the hundreds of thousands of troops that will now be available to create a human wall along our currently borderless border to the South. They might extend the troops’s tour of duty to expire only they become a certified “Ace” (5 confirmed kills). They would also be poised, if there are any complaints, to acquire Mexico as our most southern state, so they could all begin paying into Social Security plus Income tax.
This will also provide a few hundred thousand troops to one by one inspect each and every cargo container before it’s off loaded in America.
If they bring the troops home they must bring all of the troops home.
Fred Sinclair, Heirborn Ranger
41 conserve-a-tips // Nov 21, 2006 at 12:20 am
Good point Fred. I like the border idea.
I just wonder, if we do leave Iraq to become the death camps of Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam, and the Islamofascists then attack our country in a way that makes 9-11 look like a picnic, will that be Bush’s fault too? Inquiring minds and all that….
42 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 21, 2006 at 12:47 am
RE: #39~~
Fred Sinclair~~
It means that the underlying code for this page has an error in it. Usually, a missing piece of punctuation (opening or closing quote or bracket) will cause a portion of that code to show up on the page. In this case, the error is not serious enough to cause this page to be messed up (except, obviously, for the aesthetically annoying bit of gobbledygook).
If you would like to see what the code for this page looks like, right click on a blank spot on this page and click “View Page Source” or “View Source”.
I think, in this case, the error is on another page (apparently the code that links to the database) associated to this one because I do not see the error referred to in that bit of code up there.
43 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 21, 2006 at 6:32 am
Kofi Annan needs to keep his mouth off the US. He gets on my nerves.
44 Fred Sinclair // Nov 21, 2006 at 7:22 am
Kofi Annan - where was he in the roaring twenties, when we needed him? He could have advised the Chicago police (and Elliot Ness of course) to make nice with the Chicago gangs and enlist their help in stamping out illegal booze and beer in all of Chicago!! WoW! What a plan!
Heirborn Ranger
45 Dinocrat » Blog Archive » “Go Big but Short While Transitioning to Go Long” // Nov 21, 2006 at 7:30 am
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