The Duchess in a bid to secure her image as coming down on the side of bravery and forthrightness now pleads for McNarummy to apologize to Captain James Yee, the Muslim Chaplain locked up in isolation for 70 days in the Charleston Brig and then dragged around like a one-wheeled horsecart for months as the Army's case fell apart. Hey, I'm pleading for Preznit Convenient Symbol to resign...which of us will get our wish first?
Oh, and the Duchess has also printed the latest RNC blast fax summary...he has been told to be "optimistic" on Iraq. I'm pretty sure that there are some families here in the US who might have a little less optimistic assesment of the situation. Sullivan seeing the battle as all but played out, relys on that most cliche of measures to prove we are winning: the body count ratio.
The ratio of U.S. casualties to insurgent casualties was roughly one to ten. What should have been done very early in the invasion - the wiping out of the Baathist thugs and their Islamicist allies - was finally accomplished.
The small detail that Sullivan misses, safely ensconsed at his Mark1 Mod0 101-Key, board, unit of issue 1-each, is that not all of those killed were 'insurgents', and that the spirit of revenge and concept of a blood debt will live on, for a long, long time. I found this in the comments in Atrios, the writer had sourced it to the Washington Post.
"When the fighting is over in Fallujah, I will sell everything I have, even my home," said a resistance fighter who gave his name as Abu Taif Mashhadani. He wept as he recalled his 8-year-old daughter, who he said was killed by a U.S. sniper in Fallujah a week ago. "I will send my brothers north to kill the Kurds, and I will go to America and target the civilians. Only the civilians. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. And the one who started it will be the one to be blamed."
How come that does not make it into the rosy outlook? Oh, not in the blastfax, how stupid of me. Get a gun Andy, go on over, drop us a line. I'm guessing it will look a little different than when you're just fat, stoned and happy to be getting paid to write drivel. Body counts and kill ratios, what a hack.
