Memo to Senator “We’ve Lost In Iraq” Reid:
We are winning this war.
This according to embedded writer Carter Andress, CEO and principal owner of American-Iraqi Solutions Group, is author of “Contractor Combatants: Tales of an Imbedded Capitalist.” Who says in his article “This Isn’t Civil War” in today’s Wall St. Journal
I write those words from my desk in the Red Zone in downtown Baghdad as hundreds of Iraqis working with my company — Shia and Sunni, Arab and Kurd — execute security, construction and logistics missions throughout the capital and Sunni Triangle. We have been here now over three years.
American-Iraqi Solutions Group, which I helped co-found in March 2004, has been intimately involved with creating the new Iraqi security services. Our principal business as a U.S. Department of Defense contractor is to build bases for the Iraqi army and police and then supply them with water, food, fuel and maintenance services. We are on the cutting edge of the exit strategy for the U.S. military: Stand up an effective Iraqi security structure and then we can bring our troops home.
We are not out of the Iraqi desert yet. But the primary problems we now face on the ground are controllable, given a strong American military presence through 2008. These problems include the involvement of Iran in fueling Shia militancy, the British failure to uphold their security obligations in the south and the tumultuous nature of a new democracy.
With regards claims of an ongoing “civil war” in Iraq:
I see no civil war between the Shias and Sunnis as I travel practically every day on the roads of Iraq with my Arab and Kurdish security team. The potential for renewed internecine warfare faded earlier this year, when al Qaeda failed to reignite the waning sectarian struggle the second time around with another attack on the Golden Mosque in Samarra.
On the Democrat’s call for retreat and defeat:
Let us, the American people, not be terrorized into retreating before our enemy — al Qaeda — just when they have begun to stand alone, stripped of allies, in a country beginning to enjoy the fruits of a democracy we have sacrificed much blood to help create.
If only the Defeaticrats would get that message.
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September 7th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
In trying to expose media bias, you should always be more than clear about the source of any article.
I won’t judge the truth of the article, but I must take into account the possible bias (probable bias?). The article was written by a representative of a company that has undertaken $150m of contracts in Iraq (according to their Web site). I would take from there that they have a fiduciary interest in prolonging the contractor presence.
That is not to say that there is anything wrong in what the person wrote, but it is irresponsible to read such articles without the context.
December 12th, 2007 at 11:01 am
I agree with Doug. Looks like Andress left out some important items about his experience and qualifications that are relevant for any work with the taxpayers’ money. He writes well and has a great spin but again whose interest is he looking out for? In what context? Examine his past and this maybe a better indicator of what he is up to in Iraq.
Regardless of the messenger, we can agree with much of this.
Check some other posts:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/12/contractor-combatant-carter-andress.html