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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (87902)	3/30/2003 5:48:04 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

"Three hundred miles, relatively few casualties, and almost no armored vehicles lost." << Our anti-war posters don't want to hear this, BBM, they just want to sneer at Rummy. The Perfumed Princes in the Pentagon have gone into full combat mode. That means they are leaking like mad to the Washington Post. Their biggest bitch is losing the Crusader mobile artillery system. Rummy has never made any secret of his feeling that our Generals were too "WWII" and not too bright. He was right. Now they have a chance to score on him. The plan had always called for a "Follow on" insertion of more troops and weapons as needed. This is now being played by the press as a disaster. The press is not hostile, they are just looking for a story, and bad news is always a story, not good news. The down side to the Pentagon of the "embedded" reporter system is that we get "Real Time" feedback on what the Corp Commanders are thinking. So the Corp Commander, General Wallace, has his immediate remarks to his staff and Commanders showing up daily in the Press. Makes Centcom, who has no embedded reporters, look bad. This will all sort out over the next month. There will be setbacks, as there always is in a war, which will be seized on by the anti-war crowd as disasters.