"He's not a perfumed prince in from New York. Rogers earned his spurs."
I'm sure..actually I didn't even know who he was.
My dig was at our boy in the senate.
The spin has begun.Death toll has risen to 54 - From bbc,,,A "Frightened witnesses in Samarra" told a correspondent for the FRENCH news agency AFP who managed to enter the city...(by chance they just happen to be there at the time),that US forces had repeatedly come under attack on Sunday.
However, they added that.In the aftermath of one attack at about 1255 (0955 GMT), An American tank had opened fire on....workers leaving a factory at the end of their shift, killing two and wounding "many".
Iraqi doctors said eight civilians were killed by US fire in the exchanges, reported AFP.
The BBC's Peter Greste, also in Samarra, says there is an unmistakeable sense of anger among local people - who say the US response to the attacks was indiscriminate and unnecessary.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/3251690.stm