[nathanbedford]

I cannot for a minute concede that the transparent attempts to paint this
Opera Boufle as a brilliant plan to lure the Iraqis into thinking that we have
Found their next George Washington because he will win Fallujah is anything remotely resembling rality.. Put your tin foil hat on because the explanation is that the Americans have already won but do not want to say so because they want the credit to go to this Baathist general and thus the transition to Irakization will be seamlessly assured.

If you join in this version of reality I can only suggest that you have leaped through the looking glass.

The reality is that Baathists in Fallujah have revolted againt coalition rule. A baathist general
Is selected to bring them to heel and sort out the good baathists from the bad baathists. Right.
I can just hear him now talking the administration to put him in charge, Please, what ever you
Do, Brer Bush, do not throw me into that Fallujah Briar Patch. What the hell do you think
The bad guys were fighting for? The Baathists are celebrating in the streets and the Marines are grumbling. Does that tell you anything? And you accuse me of dealing in illusion over reality?

I object to a feckless policy of vacillation which propery should be called Bluster and Bug out.

[been_lurking]

All of which is interesting, but you dodged my original question.

Which do you feel is more important at this moment, reality or the media created perception of reality?