The Iraqis I speak with couldn’t care less what is said from Washington but large numbers of them pay close attention to what some Marine Gunny says, or what American battalion commanders all over Iraq say. Some of our commanders could probably run for local offices in Iraq, and win.
The money quote.
2 posted on 08/13/2007 9:34:12 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)