[Lauratealeaf]

Will do. The ME reporter wants to know how we will fight in Basrah. The answer is that the regime has cut off water causing a humanitarian concern, the Red Cross has been able to restore some water.

Focus in Basrah is to restore security, root out pockets in city. Another ME reporter asks if we are suffering from any kind of intelligence failure. Answer is our strategy is to gain control, some military targets, but intent is not to siege the city. No intelligence failure.

Now a female reporter claiming we are being drawn in the fight and implies it is not on our terms. Answer, we are not being drawn into fights not on our terms. We do not believe that is the feeling of people in cities. They are being held hostage.

[cyncooper]

Now a female reporter claiming we are being drawn in the fight and implies it is not on our terms.

Wasn't she a piece of work?