Saddam-Era General Not in Charge: Myers

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Saddam-Era General Not in Charge: Myers

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By WILLIAM C. MANN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - A former general from Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s Republican Guard has not been given command of an Iraqi force that entered Fallujah after Marines ended a three-week siege, the U.S. military chief said Sunday.

Gen. Richard Myers said news media were "very, very inaccurate" in their reporting about Maj. Gen. Jassim Mohammed Saleh, who was said to have had a major role in organizing the "Fallujah Brigade" and the lifting of the siege.

Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said officials in Baghdad were checking into Saleh's background.

"There are people that know his record, know what he's done in the previous Saddam Hussein regime," Myers said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

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You are going to tell me you let somebody enter the city that could turn on you as far as you with more weapons and men? What the fuck are you being paid to do excatly?

Meyers was on "Face the Nation" saving face.

to cheering crowds flasing the "v" for victory sign.

But he's not in charge?

rrrriiiiiiigggghhhhttttttt!

If the US tries to remove him we'll get "deja Vu all over again."

Sorry, guess my sarcasm didn't come through well enough.

If anyone caught Myers (and any of the other talking heads sent out to spin the situation - although, it appeared as if he was the one, primarily, left out to 'dry' this week) on the Sunday am shows, it is obvious that no one in Washington really knows what is going on over there. Why Iraq, the Plame Affair, the Medicare scandal, and other serious offenses committed by this admin haven't brought them down yet leaves me completely perplexed.

I'd rather have a brilliant, able, president who gets a b job every now and then, than an inept, idiot, who blows the job.

He sucked his way to the TOP now he'll be lucky to escape short of being compared to General Burnside or General Hooker.

At least Sickles for all his faults fought bravely. Not this guy he's hiding behind Wolfman Wolfowitz's flowing skirts.

LOL

This guy made his name by faking the test results of our ballistic missile defense system, the old star wars.

He is a total lapdog of Rumsfeld!

The Little Pathetic LapDOG of the NEOCONS

That rank could be bought within the army/guard. That when not bought, it was earned. Earned by keeping the peace-which involved setting a curfew at 7 PM. Taking position at 6:45 PM-and then shooting all still on the streets at 7 PM.

Saddam would make a broadcast one night-kids at school the next day would be asked what their parents said about the broadcast. If the comments were negative-or seemed to be negative-the children were orphans by end of the next school day.

My husband worked solely with Shiites-so a Sunni Iraqi may have a different tale to speak.

But that's what history really is- a very personal story set against a larger background. It's about the people...

When I showed my husband the article about the Baathists officers coming back under the US (this was 2 weeks ago)-he said..then what was the point of rounding the Republican Guard up to begin with..(one of my husband's jobs in Iraq was to flush out and arrest the Republican Guard.)

I suggested that maybe this was the point-to make them handy for the govt. to use later...as our govt. did with the Nazis.

That, along with Negroponte and those abuse pictures, has sent my husband into deep disgust.

as we use to sing in Korea;

There's a soldier in the grass
with his finger up his ass
Pull out pull out
Uncle Sam put it there

The first purge was right after 9/11 IIRC. There was a second purge during the runup to the war, which included Shinseki.

FALLUJAH, Iraq — Led by a former Saddam Hussein general, Iraqi troops replaced U.S. Marines on Friday and raised the Iraqi flag at the entrance to Fallujah under a plan to end the monthlong siege of the city. A homicide car bomb on the outskirts that killed two Americans and wounded six failed to disrupt the pullout of Marines from bitterly contested parts of the city.

The two deaths on the final day of April raised the U.S. death toll to 136, making it the deadliest month for American forces since President Bush launched the war in March 2003. More Iraqis have died — some 1,360 according to count by The Associated Press — than any month since Saddam's fall.

U.S. officials provided no further details on the bombing.

The shift of security responsibilities to Iraqis — with U.S. forces pulling back from most of their positions inside the city — was a move toward ending the intense fighting that had evoked strong international criticism and from America's Iraqi allies.

source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118613,00.html

at his war crimes trial.