Let's get a replay from the 1600 Crew's greatest hits for a moment, shall we?
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday played down recent deadly attacks on Americans in Iraq, equating those losses with everyday violence in large U.S. cities.
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Asked at Pentagon press conference about the Iraqi resistance, Rumsfeld described it as "small elements" of 10 to 20 people, not large military formations or networks of attackers. He said there "is a little debate" in the administration over whether there is any central control to the resistance, which officials say is coming from Saddam Hussein's former Baath Party, Fedayeen paramilitary, and other loyalists.
"In those regions where pockets of dead-enders are trying to reconstitute, Gen. (Tommy) Franks and his team are rooting them out," Rumsfeld said, referring to the U.S. commander in Iraq. "In short, the coalition is making good progress."
Yeah, so successful at "rooting out" the troublemakers that three years later, here's a story from Mess O'Potamia over the weekend.
Gunmen wearing police uniforms raided bus stations in central Baghdad, abducting at least 50 people, including drivers and passengers preparing to travel outside Iraq, including two Syrians, an interior ministry official said.
The attackers also seized people working in the area, where several travel agencies are based and buses pick up passengers traveling mostly to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, Lt.-Col. Falah al-Mohamedawi said.
The victims were herded into more than a dozen vehicles. More details were not immediately available.
Remember, they hate us for our freedoms. I wonder if this is the result that "GOD" intended when he "spoke" to Beloved Leader in his hallucinatory delerium-tremens state late one night on his way to eat the snack of the American Chickenhawk, cheese curls and diet water.
In Iraq it seems, the "light at the end of the tunnel" might truly be an on-coming train. It's just that the geniuses who planned this debacle aren't traveling by rail, they're in their private jets laughing all the way to the bank.
