The American public is increasingly disillusioned by the Iraq war, and Bush's triumphalism only makes things worse.
On June 21, network news reported that the Pentagon had claimed that 47 enemy operatives had been killed in Operation Spear in western Iraq. Last month, the Pentagon declared 125 had been killed in Operation Matador, near the Syrian border. "We don't do body counts on other people," Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defence, stated in November 2003.
On January 29 this year, the day before the Iraqi election, President Bush announced that it was the "turning point". On May 2 2003, he stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln behind a banner saying "Mission Accomplished" and the next day proclaimed that the "mission is completed". On June 2 this year, he declared: "Our mission is clear there, as well, and that is to train the Iraqis so they can do the fighting."
(The Guardian)
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
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Which brain was Bush using when he declared mission accomplished,it must have been the one that's considered dead,but what would you expect from a lieutenant from the Alabama national guard who thought his tour of duty was over 18 months before it really was.
Bush should be ashamed to speak the word of God while he continues to have this war drawn out and now tells us along with his buddies Cheney,Rumsfeld,and Rove that we are there for the long haul,I wonder if the long haul is going to be measured in terms of US body counts. P.S. I wonder when the above mentioned leaders will decide to go to one of thee soldiers funerals who died following their leaders words. T.A.
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