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Reports below: SPECIAL WAR REPORT AND LEGALIZE DRUGS
SPECIAL WAR REPORT
Five Reasons We Can't Win In Iraq
by U.S. Army veteran Leslie Davis and other sources
1. Iraq is a guerrilla war, yet for political purposes we are
discouraged from calling it a guerrilla war, so the guerrillas
are called "terrorists, criminals insurgents, and dead-enders."
By the way, an insurgent is a synonym for a guerrilla. There
are few effective tools to fight a guerrilla war. You can't
defeat a guerrilla army by trying to destroy every man since
he hides by day amongst the populace. Rather, in a guerrilla
war the objective should be to erode or destroy his base of
support. As long as there is support in the populace for the
guerrilla, two will rise up to replace every one you kill. When
precision guided bombs, raids, and other destructive acts are
used, it creates casualties among the innocent populace, increases
support for the guerrillas and undermines support for us. A
500 pound bomb has a killing radius of 1,300 feet (1/4 mile).
Think about what happens to your credibility when you drop huge
bombs on populated areas. Everyone hates you.
2. We have no idea what motivates the average Iraqi. American
leaders went to war in Iraq with a fantasy that the natives
would line the streets and pelt us with rose petals, and be
eternally grateful for our attack on their country. At one time
there may have been support and respect from the locals, but
months of occupation by our military have turned the formerly
friendly into the recently hostile. Attempts to correct the
thinking in this regard are futile; it is not politically correct
to point out that the locals dislike us more and more, and they
are growing increasingly upset and overtly hostile. Instead
of addressing the real reasons why the locals are becoming angry
and discontented, politicians feed us canned reasons that do
not reflect reality. We are told that the locals are not upset
that a hostile, aggressive American army is occupying their
country. We are told that they are not upset at the police state
we have created, or at the manner of our picking their government
representatives for them. Rather we are told, they are upset
because a handful of terrorists, criminals and dead enders in
their midst made them upset.
3. The guerrillas fill their losses faster than we can create
them. This is almost always the case in guerrilla warfare, especially
when your tactics are aimed at killing guerrillas instead of
eroding their support. For every guerrilla we kill with a "smart
bomb" we kill and maim many more innocent civilians and
create rage and anger in the community. This rage and anger
translates into more recruits for the guerrillas and less support
for us. We have fallen victim to the body count mentality. We
have shown a willingness to inflict civilian casualties as a
necessity of war without realizing that these casualties create
waves of hatred against us. These angry Iraqi citizens translate
into more recruits and more support for the guerrilla army.
4. The guerrilla lines of supply and communication are much
shorter than ours and much less vulnerable. We import everything
we need; this costs lots of money and is dangerous. Whether
we fly the supplies in or bring them by truck, they are vulnerable
to attack, most especially those brought by truck. This increases
the likelihood of the supplies being interrupted. Every bullet
and bandage becomes infinitely more expensive. Conversely, the
guerrillas live on top of their supplies and are showing every
indication of developing very sophisticated networks for obtaining
them. Further, they have the additional advantage of close support
from family, friends and traditional religious networks.
5. We have consistently underestimated our opponents (a.k.a.
the enemy) and his capabilities. We did it in Korea, Vietnam,
Lebanon, and we are doing it in Iraq, Colombia and elsewhere.
Our military leaders are not prepared to fight the type of guerrilla
war we are facing in Iraq, and they are squandering the lives
of our noble, honorable and valuable soldiers. Our tactics have
not adjusted to the battlefield and we are falling behind. Meanwhile
the enemy has updated his tactics and has shown a remarkable
resiliency and adaptability.
Respectfully submitted in honor of our military.
Leslie Davis ______________________________________________________________________________
End The Drug War - Legalize Drugs -
Send for our 12 reason to legalize paper
There
are many important reasons to end the war on drugs.
1. Half a million nonviolent drug offenders clog
our prisons and jails. Mandatory minimum sentences, and inflexible
sentencing guidelines, condemn numerous low-level offenders
to years, even decades behind bars, often based solely on the
word of compensated, confidential informants. With two million
people behind bars, the US leads the world in incarceration.
2. Prohibition creates a lucrative black market
that causes violence and disorder, particularly in our inner
cities, and lures young people into lives of crime. Laws criminalizing
syringe possession, and the overall milieu of underground drug
use and sales, encourage needle sharing and increase the spread
of HIV and Hepatitis C. Thousands of Americans die from drug
overdoses or poisonings by adulterants every year, most of their
deaths preventable through the quality-controlled market that
would exist if drugs were legal.
3. Our drug war in the Andes fuels a continuing civil war in
Colombia, with prohibition-generated illicit drug profits enabling
its escalation. Opium growing, and attempts to stop it, both
hurt Afghanistan's attempts at nation building and help our
enemies.
4. Patients needing medical marijuana, and the people who provide
it to them, live in fear of arrest and prosecution. Physicians'
fears of running afoul of the law causes large numbers of Americans
who need opiates for chronic pain to go un-treated or under-treated.
5. Profiling assaults the dignity of members of our minority
groups, and of the poor, denying them equal justice.
6. Privacy has been gutted from drug testing in our schools,
to SWAT teams invading our homes.
7. Ethics in the criminal justice system are the exception rather
than the rule, with perjury, violations of constitutional rights,
corruption and general misconduct endemic and largely tolerated
-- all of it driven by the drug war.
8. Frustration over the failure of the drug war, together with
the lack of dialogue on prohibition, distorts the policymaking
process, leading to ever more intrusive governmental interventions
and ever greater dilution of the core American values of freedom,
privacy and fairness.
So we oppose the drug laws -- so we fight for an end to prohibition,
for legalization -- because of the harm and the injustice that
prohibition is inflicting on so many different people in so
many ways.
And because we understand that freedom is not just the right
to control our bodies and what we put in them, even though that
ought to be enough. Freedom is the right for all people on this
earth, not having infringed the freedom of others, to walk down
the street, to go about their business, to live as they choose
and not to be confined to a prison cell just because their personal
behavior was not officially approved.
Also, to save the lives of the addicted, so patients can be
treated, for privacy, for peace, for safety, to restore ethics
to government, to end the injustices large and small -- for
all these reasons and more, we seek to end drug prohibition.
Edited David Borden editorial
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Leslie
Davis supports
LOWER TAXES
BALANCED
BUDGET
IMPROVED EDUCATION
LESS
CRIME
MORE
JOBS
Climate Protection
• Implement energy conservation and efficiency throughout
Minnesota
• Support manufacturing fuel cells, wind turbines, geothermal
and solar systems
Education
• Signs throughout schools saying RESPECT yourself and
your opportunity
• Aspartame and high fructose soda out of schools
• Expand vocational, trade, technical, commercial, internet
and home schools
• Daily physical exercise and improved nutritious meals
Energy
• Support installation of conservation and efficiency
technologies (lights, motors, insulation, appliances) at all
industrial, commercial, governmental and residential facilities
to lower electricity use by at 20-40% thereby reducing pollution
and saving $2.0 billion yearly
• Reward manufacturing and installation of fuel cells,
wind turbines, solar and geothermal systems
Environment
• The “Davis Water Plan” requires commercial
and industrial users of "publicly-owned" under-ground
water to pay two pennies per gallon for the 100 billion gallons
they take annually
• Reward companies who manufacture and install fuel cells,
wind, solar and geothermal systems
• Ban dentists from discharging mercury waste to sewers
Health
• Promote new methods of managing asthma (Buteyko breathing)
• Strive to end lead poisoning
• Discourage use of caffeine, sugar, salt, fat and aspartame
• Provide competent medical and dental care for everyone
• Endorse and promote daily exercise for people of all
ages
Jobs
• Position Minnesota in energy and transportation to create
thousands of jobs
Judicial Reform
• Require the legislature to investigate
complaints against judges and discipline them when necessary.
At the present time the judges police themselves thus preventing
justice
Mercury
• Ban dentists from discharging mercury
into sewers
Money and Transportation
• The Davis Transportation Plan requires
state-chartered banks to create checkbook money to pay for all
transportation
• Eliminate the gasoline tax, axle tax and reduce the
vehicle registration tax
• Build smoother, safer, longer-lasting roads and bridges
without debt or taxes
• Reduce accidents, lower insurance costs, reduce travel
time, decrease air and water pollution, reduce physical stress
and create thousands of jobs
• Expand Minnesota's tourism industry
• Strengthen the banking industry
Public Safety
• Stop the drug war
• Reward police with cash bonuses for less crime in their
district
• Enforce laws preventing cars from following too closely
• Require ignition interlocks on all vehicles owned by
convicted drunk drivers
• Fine or close companies who knowingly employ illegal
immigrants
• Deport illegal immigrants when caught
Taxes
• Reduce taxes
• Balance budges
Water Plan
• Require industrial and commercial users of under-ground-water
to pay 2 pennies per gallon for the 100 billion gallons per
year that they take ($2 billion)
Leslie
Davis for Minnesota Governor 2010
P.O. Box
11688
Minneapolis, MN 55411
612/522-9433 |
