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To: Ragtime Cowgirl

What a great briefing. This guy can really communicate.

9 posted on 05/12/2004 3:27:45 PM PDT by McGavin999 (If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)

The comments about him being subtle were priceless.

10 posted on 05/13/2004 5:51:47 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds, a pessimist fears this is true.)

So what we decided after looking at the experiment with the -- what you may know as the 36th battalion, where we had drawn from some of the political parties, some of their young men, and put them together in very small units, and we found that they performed very well. And we also found that when things became difficult they stood and fought. Now, why did they stand and fight? They stood and fought because they had this Iraqi pressure from their political party to whom they owed loyalty, until such time as there is a nation and an identity as a nation, and institutions that define a nation. So we found that the 36th Battalion model may have some utility, and we have taken it because the 36th was ours as well, and we've taken it now down to center-south. We've engaged with the political party leaders, we've engaged with the tribal sheikhs and the religious leaders.

Best news I have heard in awhile.

11 posted on 05/13/2004 5:52:26 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds, a pessimist fears this is true.)

Yes, these Generals speak more clearly, cogently, honestly and forthrightly than the pols on both sides of the aisle.

Interesting and refreshing.

12 posted on 05/15/2004 8:34:37 AM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com - I salute our brave fallen.)

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