To: Ragtime Cowgirl
"Even in our command group, everyone above us is keenly aware that we are now in our fifth month of this deployment, that it's getting real, real hot, and that the mission remains tough..."
A thought occurred to me: Perhaps a big reason we haven't been cleaning house of the snipers/saboteurs is because of the heat? Maybe when temperatures drop over there, and the troops can move around easier, then we can really pursue the mop-up operations in earnest.
13 posted on
07/08/2003 8:01:28 AM PDT by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Frank_Discussion
We've been pretty earnest - over 1300 bad guys detained during the two weeks of Operation Scorpion (# taken
out???). Still, the troops are only human.
Mr. Dhia has been working with the Iraqi people for 8 weeks. If our news networks aired the briefings on Iraq, instead of opining based on second-hand sources, the nation would be solidly, unwaveringly behind our troops and our efforts in Iraq. Thank goodness for the DoD website. We can bypass the DNC news filter:
Emad Dhia: Iraqis? "They feel free." Troubles? "They are blaming Saddam, of course."
20 posted on
07/08/2003 11:22:33 AM PDT by
Ragtime Cowgirl
(We're in a global war on terrorism..If you want to call that a quagmire, do it. I don't.*Rummy* 6-30)
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