Gingrich Declares WW3

[Nbadan]

Wants to make WW3 official

Neo-con favorite declares World War III
By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - Two years before the 2008 presidential election, Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, is trying desperately to grab the national spotlight by declaring he'd be a lot tougher than George W Bush in prosecuting what he calls "World War III".

In the latest in a series of recent presentations and writings, Gingrich called this week in a speech at the neo-conservative American Enterprise Ins ute (AEI) for, among other things:

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Insist that Congress immediately pass legislation "that recognizes that we are entering World War III and serves notice that the US will use all its resources to defeat our enemies - not accommodate, understand or negotiate with them, but defeat them".

Gingrich's remarks, which significantly earned a rave review in the neo-conservative Weekly Standard, came in the context of early jockeying in the 2008 presidential race, whose leading - albeit unannounced - candidates besides Gingrich include Arizona Senator John McCain, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Virginia Senator George Allen, and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

ATimes

If we are truly in the middle of World War 3 and the fate of America is at stake, why has our nation not been fully mobilized for this war? Why are we trying to fight WW3 on the cheap with only 130,000 soldiers in Iraq while Afghanistan slips further into the hands of the Taliban? Where is this generation’s Harry Truman to lead Congressional investigations into war profiteering?

If George Bush were truly serious about winning what Neocons are now branding World War 3, we should bring back the draft to increase the size of our military, turn whole industries over to the war effort so our soldiers won’t be without bullets and body armor like they too often are now, raise the top tax rates up to the World War 2 level of 90% so we can pay for the war, and start real investigations into anti-American war profiteering at companies like Halliburton. We should also start rationing critical items like gasoline and steel.

Then, maybe we can bring a Pax America to Iraq with another 500,000 soldiers there, send another 250,000 to Afghanistan.

Otherwise, anybody selling the Iraqi civil war as World War 3 is just trying to scare our nation into forgetting the lies, crony capitalism and utterly incompetent bumbling that have become the hallmarks of our Middle East policy. Today, we are a superpower in name only, with less credibility around the world than Baghdad Bob, not even able to defeat a “few dead-enders” in the “last throes” of an insurgency, despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars and having thrown away the lives of nearly 2,700 young men and women.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

There's some irony here with Dan insisting we bring back the draft when you claimed that Bush was going to do the same thing as soon as he was re-elected, and then off and on again ever since when you got a snippet of some Democratic talking points memo.

But I'm not sure I can find it...

[LaMarcus Bryant]

I want to enlist so i can help halliburton make AHF look smart.