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To: broadstbull who wrote (269833)	12/7/2003 7:22:40 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Yep, overlaid with scenes from Gaza ... btw, here's another take, from Gen. Truscott's grandson, himself West Point '69 ... a lot more sympathetic to the troops, although not to the chickenhawks calling the tune. << An colonel in Baghdad (who will go nameless here for obvious reasons) told me just after I arrived that senior Army officers feel every order they receive is delivered with next November's election in mind, so there is little doubt at and near the top about who is really being used for what over here. The resentment in the ranks toward the civilian leadership in Baghdad and back in Washington is palpable>> <<the people doing the fighting are soldiers, not the civilian employees of Kellogg, Brown & Root, or the officials of the Coalition Provisional Authority, or the visiting bigwigs from the Defense Department.>> A Million Miles From the Green Zone to the Front Lines nytimes.com