[JohnHuang2]

Monday, April 7, 2003

Quote of the Day by CounterCounterCulture

[gridlock]

What a difference a week makes, eh?

Actually, since this is from TIME, make that two weeks.

[Aquinasfan]

From Apr. 07, 2003 issue of TIME magazine

Love it!

[San Jacinto]

So Time alleges the Administration devised a war plan they thought would lead to a campaign which was," quick, easy, relatively bloodless."

Well?......

In less than 2 weeks we are in the enemies' capitol with under 100 kia. I wonder what they would have thought of the Normandy invasion. After 2 weeks we had thousands of dead and were stuck in the hedgerows of France.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Gee, I wonder if TIME will issue a lenghty correction to this pathetic piece of running-with-the-pack "journalism" that uses questionable "sources" for stories whose aim is to discredit an administration that TIME editors still thinks was "selected".

I'm not holding my breath, for that would be the honorable and journalistically ethical thing to do...

[No Left Turn]

The perils of working for a weekly. All you have to do is be right for a week, then all is forgotten. But when you're a dopey reporter trying in vain to wrap your arms around the complexity of modern warfare, you're bound to call things wrong.

[PMCarey]

"The enemy we're fighting," said army Lieut. General William Wallace last week, "is different from the one we'd war-gamed against." At least the commander of V Corps and the highest-ranking officer at the front was honest in assessing one of the most unsettling battlefield surprises: Iraqis are resisting vigorously.

The ONLY attributed quote in the whole article from an official source that is critical of the war effort and they get it wrong. Wallace said: "The enemy we're fighting is a bit different from the one we'd war-gamed against."

Putz-heads

[dead]

For the Bush Administration, some of the unexpected turns of Gulf War II reflect a perhaps too rigid adherence to ideology at the expense of on-the-ground practicality.

Royal Marine Stuart Lawley stands in a corridor of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's
palace at Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003. British paratroopers guarded by tanks
and helicopter gunships walked unopposed into the center of Iraq's second city,
meeting a warm reception in the narrow streets of the old quarter. (Pool via Reuters)

[TC Rider]

"The enemy we're fighting," said army Lieut. General William Wallace last week, "is different from the one we'd war-gamed against." At least the commander of V Corps and the highest-ranking officer at the front was honest in assessing one of the most unsettling battlefield surprises: Iraqis are resisting vigorously.

What General Wallace actually said was: "The enemy we're fighting, is A BIT different from the one we'd war-gamed against."

So, starting with a lie from the NY Times, which offered their correction last week, this article can only descend further into lies and propaganda.

[Illbay]

How embarrassing for TIME that they have to issue their magazines so far in advance of known facts.

[ThomasMore]

[Publius6961]

Pssst!
Johanna Mcgeary...

The only people I know who might have made those assumptions (besides you) either have room-temperature IQs or foam at the mouth when discussing peace.

In which category are you comfortable?

[b-cubed]

This will be the first TIME I've bought in 45 years. It will probably be a collector's item by 2004.

[Southack]

No doubt Johanna and TIME will next be telling us just how badly Republicans are losing the 2004 elections, too...

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Wild Irish Rogue]

There is some delicious irony here.By this point in the war,the media could be expected to start the wailing about the large numbers of Iraqi dead-like they did in GWI, which put pressure,IMHO,on President Bush to start the negotiations for a cease fire. They can't whipsaw from the "quagmire/failed war plan" bandwagon to "it's a turkey shoot and unfair" now and hope we don't notice. Although,I expect some to try.

[spodefly]

I can visualize one of our soldier reading this "Exclusive" nonsense in Time magazine whilst sitting on one of Saddam's gold plated toilets ... on the TV in the same bathroom, ABC news anchor Peter Jennings is frowning and talking of quagmire and failed war planning.

The leftist media in the US is a JOKE, and more and more people are seeing it everyday.

[mabelkitty]

Our "stupid" President played rope-a-dope and won; again.

Sigh!

If he's so stupid, yet he outsmarts them, does that make them mentally challenged?

[itzmygun]

Johanna should have remembered Jesse Jackson's advice:

"Stay out the Bushes! Stay out the Bushes!"

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ctdonath2]

THERE WOULD BE LITTLE RESISTANCE

Soldier observes little resistance while sitting in Saddam's chair.

THERE WOULD BE DANCING IN THE STREETS

Let the celebrations begin.

THE WAR PLAN COVERED ALL CONTINGENCIES

Including bringing a flag to promote a sports team.

Calling JOHANNA MCGEARY - your crow is ready.

[Jeff Head]

We are definitely ...

Despite all of the leftist network and Iraqi propoganda ministry pronouncements to the contrary.

Best Fregards mi Amigo.