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To: geode00 who wrote (175372)11/19/2005 4:43:33 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
I heard a report from a grunt in Iraq on NPR today. He said that the media had interviewed them on an operation they had participated in.

By their commanding officer, they were explicitly ordered to LIE about the performance of the participating Iraqi troops, who had thrown down their weapons and bugged out at the commencement of hostilities. They were ordered to tell the media that the Iraqis had perfomed valorously, and were magnificent soldiers!



To: geode00 who wrote (175372)11/19/2005 4:44:43 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
<<...the dirty little secret is the Bush Administration has never had a substantive policy on Iraq, other than expecting to be "greeted as liberators." Once that fell by the wayside, every single thing the Bush Administration has done has been wholly motivated by politics.

And the number one weapon in their political arsenal on Iraq is the New McCarthyism. But by going after John Murtha, the Republicans have gone a bridge too far...>>

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