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General amused by analysts - references a cow and a 'flat rock'
The Dallas Morning News ^ | April 6, 2003 | The Dallas Morning News Staff

Posted on 04/06/2003 6:45:42 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP

General amused by analysts

04/06/2003

From Staff Reports

WASHINGTON – Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael "Buzz" Moseley may be commander of the U.S.-British air effort over Iraq, but he was born in Grand Prairie, Texas, where plain-spokenness is a virtue.

Asked Saturday about critics of the U.S. war plan, especially the many former military officers on television, Gen. Moseley said he found it humorous.

"Retired military people from various grades, from major to general, seem to feel free to comment on a plan that they have never seen ... or have any understanding of," he said.

"I grew up in Texas, and a lot of these guys, I'm amused by the way they critique it, but in the end, it's a whole lot like listening to a cow pee on a flat rock. It just doesn't matter."


Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/nation/stories/040603dnnatflatrock.9fcfc.html


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: armchairgenerals; generalmoseley; handwringers; iraq; iraqifreedom; iraqwar; mediahysteria; texas
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This may get thrown in Chat but I thought it was great !
1 posted on 04/06/2003 6:45:42 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: MeeknMing
"..."Retired military people from various grades, from major to general, seem to feel free to comment on a plan that they have never seen or have any understanding of"..."
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This is the better line in the story.
2 posted on 04/06/2003 6:47:51 AM PDT by error99 (this space for lease)
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To: error99
Not naming any names, of course. *coughCLARKcough*
3 posted on 04/06/2003 6:49:34 AM PDT by Green Knight (Eomer is a Unilateralist!)
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To: MeeknMing

4 posted on 04/06/2003 6:50:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (Let's Roll)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
hehehehe ! Thanks.
5 posted on 04/06/2003 6:51:56 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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To: MeeknMing
Having SEEN and

LISTENED TO

and been

SPLATTERED by similar on top of the Milk Bucket lid (more times than I'd have preferred by far)

such a performance

. . . no way I could read without robust laughter.

I think he's got it right.

And just prior to reading this one--I was listening to some FOX commentator drone on and on about special forces this and that with some Congressional Committee member . . . and thinking to myself--they sure have to fill the air time with a lot or drivel, don't they.

Still, Fox does better than most.

Wasteland, indeed.

I wonder what McLuen (sp?) would say nowadays. He is dead, isn't he?
6 posted on 04/06/2003 6:53:55 AM PDT by Quix (QUALITY RESRCH STDY BTWN BK WAR N PEACE VS BIBLE RE BIBLE CODES AT MAR BIBLECODESDIGEST.COM)
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To: MeeknMing
Well put! I hope those Armchairs' ears are burning.
7 posted on 04/06/2003 6:54:11 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: MeeknMing
I'm amused by the way they critique it, but in the end, it's a whole lot like listening to a cow pee on a flat rock. It just doesn't matter."

How in tarnation do they come up with this stuff! LOL!

8 posted on 04/06/2003 6:55:55 AM PDT by sirchtruth
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To: sirchtruth
That's good ole straight Texas lingo
9 posted on 04/06/2003 6:57:47 AM PDT by Green
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To: MeeknMing
I was watching the news conference. He was on the phone with reporters gathered at the Pentagon. It was quite funny and a number of the reporters even laughed at it. Although the fellow that asked the question didn't seem amussed.

It seems the retired "arm chair" generals and privates the networks are getting to comment on the war, have only marginally more information to base their comments upon than a number of the "key board commando's" that post here on FR.

All in all, it is becoming quite amussing, as neither group really seemm to know what they are talking or writing about.

10 posted on 04/06/2003 6:58:52 AM PDT by ImpBill ("You are either with US or against US!")
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To: sirchtruth
What stuff.. doesn't everyone say such things?(MEG from Texas)
11 posted on 04/06/2003 6:58:53 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: MeeknMing
There's also the:

"It's raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock."

and

"Covering as much ground as a cow pissing on a flat rock."
(--from the splatter!)
12 posted on 04/06/2003 7:03:42 AM PDT by Quix (QUALITY RESRCH STDY BTWN BK WAR N PEACE VS BIBLE RE BIBLE CODES AT MAR BIBLECODESDIGEST.COM)
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Having SEEN and LISTENED TO and been SPLATTERED by similar on top of the Milk Bucket lid (more times than I'd have preferred by far) such a performance . . . no way I could read without robust laughter.

Yes, but have you ever gotten a "fully laden" tail in the face while milking?

13 posted on 04/06/2003 7:03:56 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/terroristcorecard/index.html)
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No indeed!

Though I managed to tie her tail--I forget to what--her leg, I think.
14 posted on 04/06/2003 7:06:14 AM PDT by Quix (QUALITY RESRCH STDY BTWN BK WAR N PEACE VS BIBLE RE BIBLE CODES AT MAR BIBLECODESDIGEST.COM)
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To: Straight Vermonter
Ya...and they seem to have soaked it in the gutter good before they do it.
15 posted on 04/06/2003 7:07:47 AM PDT by crz
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To: Straight Vermonter
Shared your post with my 80 year old dad.

He said he was driving the cows in from the pasture one time. And coming up a hill at the end of a long day, he grabbed hold of a cow's tail and let her pull him up a steep hill.

She'd been eating a lot of grass that day. And unloaded a sizeable uhhhh unflattened, undried cowpie full in his face.

He headed quickly for the nearest ditch.
16 posted on 04/06/2003 7:08:44 AM PDT by Quix (QUALITY RESRCH STDY BTWN BK WAR N PEACE VS BIBLE RE BIBLE CODES AT MAR BIBLECODESDIGEST.COM)
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To: MeeknMing
The irony of staff officers having to spout this drivel to pick up a few extra bucks and salve their inflated egos.

Some have an axe to grind or not so hidden agenda.

17 posted on 04/06/2003 7:09:18 AM PDT by TUX
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To: Quix
Most of the analyst weenies I have seen lately would say "precipitating after the fashion of a bovine mammal urinating on a planar geodisic formation.'
18 posted on 04/06/2003 7:09:31 AM PDT by Living Stone
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To: MeeknMing
There are many great things about this war but one of the greatest (perhaps THE greatest in terms of our national survival) is the defeat of a bunch of old-school generals who wanted to gear up to fight Vietnam all over again.

It's a cliche that generals always want to fight the last war.

Well, not General Franks. And not Mr. Rumsfeld. They looked ahead into the future and brought a new visionary strategy against a new kind of global threat.

The old-style generals are fuming because they actually yearn for the days of slow escalation, quagmire, and endless war.

And Rummy didn't let them have their way. So they stomp their goutish feet and carp and complain.

Meanwhile, the swiftest, most brilliant military campaign in history unfolds in front of their stupid faces.

19 posted on 04/06/2003 7:14:24 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Living Stone
LOL!
20 posted on 04/06/2003 7:14:27 AM PDT by MEG33
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