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To: Sully- who wrote (23451)7/27/2003 2:30:08 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
In the previous article, it stated that troops's morale was low due to the dems...Wolfowitz is herein defending his position that troops' morale is high. Which is it? Can't the Bush admin make up its collective mind about anything? Btw, who is Wolf ostensibly quoting? The unknown soldier?

Q You said that troop morale is high. As you know, there's been enough of a discussion about the complaints from troops that General Abizaid a week ago here said that certain kinds of things were not allowed to be said by troops, including calls for resignations of high Defense officials. And some observers think that that stems from unmet expectations on the parts of the troops be it about that they'd be treated as liberators and not be engaged in a guerrilla war; that combat would be over -- combat essentially over – as you said -- 84 days later people are still dying, or that they'd be rotated out. I'm wondering how you see that.

Mr. Wolfowitz: Look, first of all, I said the 3rd Infantry Division not only had perhaps the toughest fighting during the war, it had the toughest area to take care of after the war. But the -- everywhere I went, I found troops with heartwarming stories about the reception they had gotten from Iraqis and how wonderful it felt to get that kind of reception, and the sort of lingering doubt about "Don't folks back home get it?" -- and your colleagues might be able to help in that regard.But the thing that came through over and over and over again is, "The worst thing for us is uncertainty. If you would tell us we're going to be here for a year, we've got a job to do, it is a great job to do, it's helping Iraqi people, it's helping our country. We'd just like to have a date and work to a date."
If he'd said Corporal Jeffrey Holloway* was met with thunderous applause after his statement, this quote would be credible. Since Wolf didn't attribute it to anyone, I believe it's been fabricated, like most everything we've heard from the current admin.

*a fictional name