Goff: Exit is a Command (Not a Strategy)

SOME REMARKS FROM A DEBATE STAN GOFF HAD AT SUNY (STONYBROOK):

The daily character of this occupation is not benevolent, but malevolent. Its purpose is not liberation but control over the population. That attempt to control is not winning hearts and minds, but worsening the conditions of the vast majority of Iraqis, not only with the steady degradation of an already shattered infrastructure and the provocation of civil war, but with random sweeps, house raids predicated on rumors promoted by local collaborators with hidden agendas, mass detentions without due process, humiliation, random killing, and torture. These are not the characterizations of the occupation I have merely read in reports, but those I have heard first hand from dozens of the very soldiers who were deployed to Iraq. Some may be in this room right now.