The Chickenhawk contingent doesn't seem to be able to figure out. And, judging by the fact that we now have over 1200 brave, dead American Servicemen and women in Iraq, it seems that the Chickenhawks will never be breaking the code.
Senior Marine intelligence officers in Iraq are warning that if American troop levels in the Falluja area are significantly reduced during reconstruction there, as has been planned, insurgents in the region will rebound from their defeat. The rebels could thwart the retraining of Iraqi security forces, intimidate the local population and derail elections set for January, the officers say.
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The pessimistic analysis is contained in a seven-page classified report prepared by intelligence officers in the First Marine Expeditionary Force, or I MEF, last weekend as the offensive in Falluja was winding down. The assessment was distributed to senior Marine and Army officers in Iraq, where one officer called it "brutally honest."
"Brutally Honest". A concept neither appreciated nor understood by the 1600 Crew. In response, let's see if Donnie "War is Peace" Rumsfeld chooses to rotate several divisions back to the states now that we have ended major combat operations in Fallujah, after all, the Mission is Accomplished.
I pity the fool who has to deliver this assessment to Bubble Boy. I doubt any one will...it's kind of like how the Generals treated Hitler...no one wanted to be the bearer of bad news, and so it is with the 1600 Crew, no one wants to tell Preznit Their Blood His Gutz that war is not a video game, and it's certainly tougher than raising incipient alcoholic party girls.
"The assessment of the enemy is a worst-case assessment," Brig. Gen. John DeFreitas III of the Army, the senior military intelligence officer in Iraq, said of the Marine report in a telephone interview on Wednesday. "We have no intention of creating a vacuum and walking away from Falluja."
Obviously, BGEN DeFreitas is unfamiliar with the NeoCon "Flowers and Candy" doctrine. If he wants to make MAJGEN, he better get his reading list right, and soon.
posted by Jo Fish on 11.18.04 at 01:21 AM
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He better upgrade his ass kissing skills if he wants to make good with this bunch.
posted by: merl on 11.18.04 at 04:13 PM [permalink]