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He already said he was troubled, implying that the incident was true. Apparently he's still in "apologetic mode" from last week. I wish he'd keep his mouth shut.

Bush is helping prepare the country for the worst. So was Peter Pace, on Monday.

You guys don't seem to get it.

That may well be true, but to continue to speculate as you are is not useful to anyone but possibly yourself by putting yourself in a position in the next few days to weeks to be able to say " I told you so ", which is fairly petty and self centered, IMO.

How about just waiting until the reports are in and charges are filed, if applicable, before you strut around like you sh!t doesn't stink, eh?

He already said he was troubled, implying that the incident was true. Apparently he's still in "apologetic mode" from last week. I wish he'd keep his mouth shut.

Bush is helping prepare the country for the worst. So was Peter Pace, on Monday. You guys don't seem to get it.

You're right. We're all dumber than dirt. Since you sit on the right hand of God, will the DOW hit 15,000 this year?

Unfortunately the decision wasn't made at the start that the official response without deviation was that there was no lapse of discipline and no 'unlawful acts'. Media presentations would receive a frigid stonewall and those stricken with a bout of too tender conscience within the services (particularly those pests from the military judiciary) could have been squelched in the myriad of ways the military can drop a fair sized mountain on those who annoy the people up the chain of command. This incident was not big enough to be a My Lai so relentless plausible denial could have contained the problem long enough to make it of purely historical interest when it eventually got fully ventilated. Both the Army and the Marines dealt with at least one episode of a similar nature in Viet Nam in this manner in a very successful way. The Army case was far larger than this and was quite protracted and deliberate, actually a sort of Mano Blanco operation which probably did strike terror into some of the appropriate hearts. There is never any reason to tell a damaging truth in war if a convenient lie or half truth can be fabricated to provide cover.