Today at some sort of a press availability in the UK, the Miserable Failure probably made Unka Karl extremely happy he was still on that blood-pressure medication...seems the National Embarrassment was, well, Embarrassing.
Bush raised the possibility of increasing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. When a reporter mentioned the United States' announced plans to reduce troop levels, the president responded: "We could have less troops in Iraq, we could have the same number of troops in Iraq, we could have more troops in Iraq -- whatever is necessary to secure Iraq."
Just a guess here, but somewhere in the depths of the 1600 Crew Ministry of Information they were probably trying to find the archived video to prove that was not a new position. Damage control was conducted by the ever-present anonymous official, who knows just enough to be dangerous, but not enough to be blamed...
A top aide to Bush, who briefed reporters after the news conference on condition that she not be identified, said that Bush was not announcing a change in policy and that expectations remained that troop levels would be reduced. "There is simply nothing to suggest that the number of American forces would need to increase," the official said. "In fact, the conversations with the commanders have gone the other way."
Two weeks ago, the Pentagon announced plans to reduce U.S. forces from the current 132,000 to 105,000 by next May. The Pentagon has also said it plans to reduce forces to about 50,000 by mid-2005. Though it said those figures could change based on the security situation in Iraq, military experts have said it would be difficult to increase the U.S. troop levels in Iraq without calling up more reserves and National Guard units and extending rotations for a military that is already stretched thin.
Yup, tell everyone they're coming home and have the first of them start arriving oh, hell, about the second day of the Democratic Convention...conveniently de-planing at Logan International in Boston as they catch their flights to their hometowns for that 30 days of post-deployment leave. You just know that the Pentagram will have some E-3 goober on camera who rotated into Iraq about 30 days before his unit left for good, telling everyone how it was really pretty o-k but now he's just happy to be going home. The real soldiers won't give a shit about cameras, they'll just want to get on a plane home. To Peace.
posted by Jo Fish on 11.21.03 at 12:11 AM
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Great post buddy.
i keep wondering why Republicans keep on saying they're proud of this man.
