...perhaps Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr and Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus of the well respected 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions respectively. Why might they be bending elbows at the Retired Flag Officers Club with Eric Shinseki? Because, darn it, they tell the inconvenient truth.
"I want to underscore that most of the attacks on our forces are by former regime loyalists and other Iraqis, not foreign forces," said the officer, Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr., commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.
His view was echoed by Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, which controls northern Iraq and parts of its borders with Syria, Turkey and Iran.
During a briefing on Monday for a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, he said that since May, his men had captured perhaps 20 foreign fighters trying to slip into the country from those three countries.
Well, that's not the way I heard it...why everyone from the Big Deserter all through the NeoCon Chickenhawk ranks have been doing nothing but braying like the load of jackasses that they are, about all the foreign fighters pouring into Iraq.
Anything to cover up a Miserable Failure, eh. Hope the Generals have some lucre put aside for their golden years...I think they're gonna get shitcanned for even mentioning this in a non-spin approved method (it did not come from FNC, therefore it's not true)...
posted by Jo Fish on 11.19.03 at 12:04 AM
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I'm sick to death of seeing honest people take the fall for this lying sack of shit administration.
MGen Petraeus has been in the CPAs sights for some time because he has been ignoring 'advice' from Bagdad and getting things done.
The General and his people have been rebuilding the North with funds they seized from Saddam. If you are looking for good news from Iraq you can find it in the area controlled by the 101st.
This is the guy who after hearing that a concrete plant would cost millions to rebuild and months to complete, got it up and running for $80k by contracting with an Iraqi concrete firm.
Instead of learning from the success of General Petraeus, they will move him out.
The man was given lemons and he didn't just make lemonade, he carbonated it. They will get rid of him because he grew his own cane for sugar and dug a well for water, rather than buying from the 'approved list of vendors'.
posted by: Bryan on 11.19.03 at 05:25 PM [permalink]
That sucks and I'm sure they do get in trouble just for telling the truth because it is conflicting with "the official truth of the moment."
