Thursday, January 11, 2007

Re-Post How to Win Over Iraq and the War on Terror



Originally Posted in 2005, then again on Tuesday, December 12, 2006.


I actually received a letter from Senator Hatch indicating that he had put forward some of these ideas to the President. When will the people in power accept our Military is the most powerfull death and destruction machine on the planet, but they should not be asked to be policeman in a country where even the good guys hate you because somebody they knew or loved has been killed. Our Military can and should close all access in or out of Iraq, then encourage volunteer's to assist in rebuilding the country. If they start killing volunteer's, public outrage worldwide will reign down of the terrorists, and one by one they will be turned in or killed themselves by the common people of Iraq.

How to Win Over Iraq and the War on Terror

By Mark E. Towner, Salt Lake City UtahTo show the people of Iraq that the United States wants their country to be free from terrorists and allow them to pursue peace, happiness, and prosperity the United States should propose to the people of Iraq the following.The United States will agree to deploy US forces to Iraq totaling (500,000) from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2009. The President will then ask all healthy former servicemen and women up to age 65 including all former Vietnam veterans, reserve, and current military to re-up for a six month to a one year rotation in Iraq. The President would call upon young Americans to volunteer a 1 year service mission to assist the rebuilding of the infrastructure of Iraq. The United States Military will totally seal off the boarders of Iraq, not allowing any entry into Iraq. All supplies into Iraq will be brought in by US convoy. The reserve and older ex military personal would secure the Iraq boarders using the latest technology available and guard and protect the oil fields and pipelines. This experience will also help us to perfect how to secure our own boarders here in the United States. I would expect over 1 million signups of former military alone. I would expect 1-2 million US volunteer’s to assist in rebuilding Iraq if they can be assured of security in the nation. The active Military would completely seal Baghdad and other hot zones in Iraq. They would also surround small remote towns and order its evacuation, giving the residents 48 hours to leave. Then the military would do a clean sweep of any terrorists. Once the town was secure, the US volunteer’s would move into the town and rebuild the homes, infrastructure, electricity, phone service, internet etc. and just like on the TV show, these efforts would be documented and reported 24 hours a day worldwide. When completed, the residents would be allowed to return to their homes where they would have clean water, sewer, electricity, etc.After this procedure has been repeated over and over, the minds and hearts of the people will be changed. The people will turn against the terrorists and they themselves will police their own neighborhoods and once again take pride in their community and country.In December 2008, all the troops including all the Old Vietnam Veterans, the Volunteer’s, everyone can come home to the arms of a grateful nation, and the people of the world will again respect and thank America.


Mark E. Towner

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Salt Lake County Mayor Needs to GO!


Lets eliminate the confusion. How about Salt Lake County Executive?

I never could understand why we have a County Mayor. Ask any voter in the county who their Mayor is and they might actually know their City Mayor’s name but County Mayor (Who)?

When Carrie and I and our 5 daughters transplanted from Seattle via Eagle River Alaska to Utah, we were confused by this County Mayor thing. I asked the question of someone at the first GOP function what exactly did the County Mayor do, and they replied they were the Chief Executive of the county. Well I understood this notion well becaue in Washington State each County (the largest being King) the elected official to run the county was called County Executive. This explains what the elected official is actually doing, with little questions.

The problem we have in Salt Lake County is we already have a bunch of Elected Mayors. And these Mayors are representing their respective cities and towns. And guess what folks, the cities interests and the Counties interests are not the same.

So lets fix this now, right now in fact and start referring to Mayor Peter Corroon as County Executive Corroon and get somebody up at the Legislature to change the name in the statute.

And since Peter has not plastered his name over all the County Buildings like the last Mayor, all he will have to do is get some new letter head and some .jpeg changes for the website.

Additionally I feel the need for 3 at large seats on the council to be redundant and was a bone thrown to the former commissioners. I would propose that in the next census in 2010, we eliminate these three positions, draw truly representative districts and save us taxpayers some money….

Any thoughts….

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New Dan Jones Poll shows I'm right on vouchers!

I broke this story yesterday, and here are the numbers to back me up.

This will happen in 2007 folks

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650221970,00.html

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