Iraq Evac Plans Drawn Up?

Well, a bit of a blow to the Bush White House this week, with reports of Kissinger being heavily involved in planning with and advising Bush and Cheney on operations in Iraq. Well, apparently, things are much deeper, and troublesome, than what's on the surface:

Kissinger, who as Secretary of State, helped oversee the U.S. military evacuation of South Vietnam in 1975, is trying to convince the Bush White House that it should remain in Iraq to make up for Congress' lack of resolve to win in Vietnam. However, our Pentagon sources report that plans for a massive and quick U.S. military evacuation from Iraq have been drawn up -- and that they borrow heavily from the U.S. evacuation experience in South Vietnam. Pentagon and U.S. Central Command contingency planners, fully expecting a major insurgent offensive against U.S. forces in Iraq that will result in a mandatory U.S. military withdrawal, have already identified evacuation staging locations, including from the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone and Baghdad International Airport. Other evacuation points reportedly include major hotels and U.S. military bases in Iraq. It is planned that evacuees will be airlifted by plane and helicopters to U.S. Navy ships in the Gulf, Kuwait, Jordan, and Germany.

British forces in Basra have also drawn up evacuation plans.

With Anbar province already lost to the insurgents and much of the country in turmoil, the failure of the United States to evacuate in the face of an all-out insurgent offensive could result in a number of U.S. forces being taken prisoner by insurgent forces. And with the recent decision of Congress to permit torture of enemy prisoners, the fate of a large number of U.S. military and civilian prisoners in insurgent hands has Pentagon officials extremely worried.

In case people have not put two and two together: We destabilized Iraq, and then proceeded to commit all kinds of bad deeds over there, resulting in an unprecedented uprising of people that hate our troops. Keep in mind we did all of this illegally in the first place, as we had no right or reason to invade. Then, word slips to the world that we're torturing prisoners of war, quite probably many of them from Iraq themselves. So if, no, when these people band together and come after our troops, who are already in short supply and poorly equipped, do you really think they're going to uphold the Geneva Convention standards and NOT torture our men and women? It's only a matter of time now before Iraq is fully lost; it's not even a question of if actually but when. Clearly, people in the know military wise realize this, but I fear Bush and Co will continue their crusade blindly into the night, continually ignoring the advice of the advisors and veteran military commanders around them. And if that happens, well, may God have mercy in Iraq.