Rumsfeld: Insurgency could last long as 12
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Rumsfeld: Insurgency could last for years
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BEIJING, June 27 -- US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday more violence in Iraq could go on for a number of years. He said that defeating the insurgency may take as long as 12 years, with Iraqi ...
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June 26, 2005
Iraqis, not U.S., will defeat insurgents - Rumsfeld
By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqis, and not U.S. troops, will be the ones to eventually defeat an Iraqi insurgency that may get more violent in coming months and take years to overcome, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday.
"The insurgency will be put down by the Iraqi people over time. It won't be won by the coalition forces. Foreigners don't defeat insurgencies," Rumsfeld told reporters after a television taping.
Growing doubts over the Iraq war among the American public have put the Bush administration on the defensive, with some Republicans in Congress expressing concern or joining Democratic calls that a date be set for pulling out U.S. troops. U.S. President George W. Bush has rejected a withdrawal date as unwise.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Rumsfeld defended Vice President Dick Cheney's widely criticized remarks that the insurgency was in its "last throes." The number of attacks had remained "about level," but the insurgents were becoming more deadly, Rumsfeld said.
The U.S. death toll in Iraq exceeds 1,700, and last week six Americans were killed in a bomb attack in Falluja.
"The lethality is up," Rumsfeld said. "Last throes could be a violent last throe, just as well as a placid or calm last throe. Look it up in the dictionary," he said.
Violence could increase in coming months before an anticipated October referendum on a new Iraqi constitution and December elections, he said.
He said Iraqis were making political progress and there was also progress in training Iraqi security forces, but the insurgents could take years to defeat.
"That insurgency can go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, 8, 10, 12 years. Foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency. We're going to create an environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can win against that insurgency," he said.
"If you think about the insurgency, they don't have any vision. There's no Ho Chi Minh, there's no Mao ... they are foreigners trying to impose their will against an elected government and they are going to lose it," he said.
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 26 June 2005.
By: Muhammad Abu Nasr on: 27.06.2005 [00:42 ] (76 reads)
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/54914
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Xinhua - 2 hours ago
BEIJING, June 27 -- US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday more violence in Iraq could go on for a number of years. He said that defeating the insurgency may take as long as 12 years, with Iraqi ...
US officials contact Iraq insurgents - Rumsfeld Forbes
US, Iraqi officials say insurgent talks going on Reuters
ABC Online - Guardian Unlimited - BBC News - Bloomberg -
all 438 related »
World Updates
June 26, 2005
Iraqis, not U.S., will defeat insurgents - Rumsfeld
By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqis, and not U.S. troops, will be the ones to eventually defeat an Iraqi insurgency that may get more violent in coming months and take years to overcome, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday.
"The insurgency will be put down by the Iraqi people over time. It won't be won by the coalition forces. Foreigners don't defeat insurgencies," Rumsfeld told reporters after a television taping.
Growing doubts over the Iraq war among the American public have put the Bush administration on the defensive, with some Republicans in Congress expressing concern or joining Democratic calls that a date be set for pulling out U.S. troops. U.S. President George W. Bush has rejected a withdrawal date as unwise.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Rumsfeld defended Vice President Dick Cheney's widely criticized remarks that the insurgency was in its "last throes." The number of attacks had remained "about level," but the insurgents were becoming more deadly, Rumsfeld said.
The U.S. death toll in Iraq exceeds 1,700, and last week six Americans were killed in a bomb attack in Falluja.
"The lethality is up," Rumsfeld said. "Last throes could be a violent last throe, just as well as a placid or calm last throe. Look it up in the dictionary," he said.
Violence could increase in coming months before an anticipated October referendum on a new Iraqi constitution and December elections, he said.
He said Iraqis were making political progress and there was also progress in training Iraqi security forces, but the insurgents could take years to defeat.
"That insurgency can go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, 8, 10, 12 years. Foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency. We're going to create an environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can win against that insurgency," he said.
"If you think about the insurgency, they don't have any vision. There's no Ho Chi Minh, there's no Mao ... they are foreigners trying to impose their will against an elected government and they are going to lose it," he said.
Copyright © 2005 Reuters
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 26 June 2005.
By: Muhammad Abu Nasr on: 27.06.2005 [00:42 ] (76 reads)
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/54914
THIS IS MY WAR, SO ... OFF!!!
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