'Bring Em On'- Retiring General Franks Stands Behind President Bush's Words

ABC News Exclusive ^ | July 7, 2003 | Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer

[Mike Darancette]

The President and Franks say 'Bring im On' and the Libs say 'Bring em In' (NATO and the U.N.).

The libs are afraid that manly talk will make the scum mad and Europe feel unneeded. The libs assume that these groups are indeed men.

[OldFriend]

He was very close to Rumsfeld. This generated all kinds of backstabbing and scurrilous charges. All of which were investigated and dismissed. Can't blame the man for retiring for now. Shinseki still out there bashing him.

IMHO, we were lucky to have this man at this time. A man who began his career as an enlisted man.

[RoseofTexas]

WOW!! WHAT A SPEECH!! And the song that followed, I'm Your Biggest Fan...had me in tears! Job well done Gen. Franks, God Bless you and your family! Have a wonderful retirement, you EARNED it!!

[archy]

The President and Franks say 'Bring im On' and the Libs say 'Bring em In' (NATO and the U.N.).

The libs are afraid that manly talk will make the scum mad and Europe feel unneeded. The libs assume that these groups are indeed men. Just so. Why should the Euroweenies be allowed the honor and glory of having their sons shipped home in boxes:

02 July 2003 - "There are some who feel like that conditions are such that they can attack us there," Bush told reporters at the White House. "My answer is bring them on. We have the force necessary to deal with the situation." - Reuters

03 July 2003 - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - One U.S. soldier was killed and 19 were wounded in two attacks in central Iraq on Thursday night, the U.S. military said on Friday. A sniper shot dead one American soldier in Baghdad, while the 19 U.S. soldiers were wounded in an attack near the town of Balad, north of the capital, a military spokesman said.

06 July 2003 - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was killed and four were wounded in new and increasingly bold attacks on occupying forces in Iraq as a top U.S. politician said intelligence suggested Saddam Hussein was probably alive.

A soldier was shot and fatally wounded at Baghdad University on Sunday, while four were wounded in an ambush with rocket-propelled grenades in Ramadi, a volatile town about 60 miles west of Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said.

The spokesman gave no details of how seriously the four were hurt, nor further description of the ambush. On Saturday, seven Iraqi police recruits were killed in a remote-controlled bomb blast in Ramadi.

07 July 2003 - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in two fresh attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad overnight, the U.S. military said Monday. A spokesman said one soldier was killed while a patrol was pursuing Iraqi gunmen in the Azamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad. An Iraqi gunman was killed and another wounded in the clash. The second U.S. soldier was killed when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his vehicle in the district of Kadhimiya.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

we were lucky to have this man at this time. A man who began his career as an enlisted man.

Another American success story.

[Mike Darancette]

Why should the Euroweenies be allowed the honor and glory of having their sons shipped home in boxes:

So is it time for the USA to cut and run? Or is it that the adults at defense may have a method to their actions.

How many bad guys have died or been captured? Who were the guys and where did they come from.

Maybe we would like some of the world's bad guys to come to Iraq to play.

The Euroweenies will come when it is safer and they WILL be under US command.

[Chuckster]

Fiftyseven is pretty old for a soldier, even a General.

[ewing]

I was for NATO having a big role on this from the beginning (the ones that stood by us)

[RetiredArmy]

"Liberals, like Clinton and his boot licks are such cowards. They absolutely hate men of honor and courage. That's why they hate this country so much.

This mob would not know honor if it bit them on their collective fat liberal asses!

[jarhead64]

I just retired at 58.... ('bout dang time) and don't call me old..:-}

[FreeReign]

Goading the resistance pockets to attack doesn't increase the danger, those confrontations are inherently dangerous. Whatever Baath, al Qaeda, Shia resistance there is in Iraq will not change their ways unless confronted and killed. The sooner this happens, the sooner that phase of the liberation of the Iraqi people will be over, bringing closer the day when we can get our troops out of there.

Exactly right.

The pockets of resistance have been both slooow and covert. It is to our advantage to make the resistance more overt and faster to happen. This is what goading brings out.

Bring it on!!

[McGavin999]

In this case he DOES want to spend more time with his family. Imagine being away from your wife for 8 years. Imagine not seeing your grandchildren grow up. Imagine living under the constant pressure this man has lived under when all he wants is to have coffee in the morning with the woman he loves, and take a shower in his own bathroom, and sleep in his own bed.

[happygrl]

Personally, I dug it - especially when Gephardt responded that the POTUS should stop the "macho talk". (He certainly lived up to his nickname in that moment.)

Dick.

[Chuckster]

I just retired at 58.... ('bout dang time) and don't call me old..:-}

You're a better man than I am. I'm 54 and I hung up my spurs 23 years ago with 15 years active service (US Army Field Artillery)

.......and I wouldn't dream of calling you old d;^)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Little Dick. LOL

[potlatch]

This needs to be our new strategy - when some Republican makes a remark [unless it's really bad],and the Dems start howling, all the other Republicans need to start repeating it.

[dalebert]

Same as Let's Roll or Flush Em Out. What the difference?

[johnb838]

HE works from Tampa.