Rummy is coming on...MSBSRNC Pentagon briefing

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He is taliking about how The Baath regime is hampering the peaceful transition

You mean there were actually some folks who prospered under the murderous regime of Saddam who might not be disposed to just giving up power, even at the point of a gun?

Of course, being the incredibly smart guy you are, you knew this all along, and figured their resistance into your pre-war calculations, didn't you? Didn't you?

.."The absence of evidence is NOT the evidence of absence"....

I was at lunch today (Aug. 5) and saw General Myers on the tube with Don VonRumsfeld.

The sound was off, but I read the captions, and Myers said something like:

"It is remarkable the ability of our soldiers to go from fighting mode to the mode of helping Iraqis rebuild their country."

This same message was put out by the very creepy Paul Wolfowitz (sp?) when he speechified before some senate committee last week (Senators Boxer, Feingold, that nut Brownback, Lugar, et al. were asking about $$$ to pay for this bullshit invasion...)

If I recall, Paul W. commented about how neat it was to see the creative and imaginative ways the troops were in their efforts to rebuild the nation.

Who is the junta really talking to when they say shit like this, and what does the junta hope to achieve by repeating this mantra?

I think I know the answers to my own questions, but I would like to hear from other people about their guesses as to who the real audience is for this propaganda, and what the defense dept hopes to achieve by repeating this particular message. Again: why the emphasis on the "amazing" ability of soldiers to move from "fighting mode" to "helping mode"??

Also, does anybody have other recent examples of this particular message coming out of the junta (mostly out of defense dept.) saying how great the troops are at moving from fighting mode and into "rebuilding the nation mode"?

Another mantra they seem intent on repeating is:
The soldiers know why they are in Iraq, and how this action fits in with the overall war on terrorism.

By repeating this line who are they talking to?? The soldiers, their families? Or the "opposition" Senators? (like Feingold who said that "the American people are starting to understand that the Iraq attack has nothing to do with the war on terror")

As a citizen, why do I need reassurance that our soldiers understand what the purpose of this bullshit war is?

Being used, and lied to, and defrauded, and starved, and hot, and thirsty, and homesick, and haunted by the faces of collateral damage.

You never see one without the other. They're joined at the hip. It's almost as if they just don't really trust one another.

Gen. Richard B. Myers, former NORAD commander and Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9-11, 2001

Who gave the stand-down order on Sept. 11, 2001?