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Yes they have all been consistent. What has not been consistent are unconfirmed quotations presented in by the media which are intended to get just the sort of weak kneed, juvenile and hysterical responses that it is getting out of people like you. Have you ever been in combat? If you have you are lucky to be alive given your propensity to panic, blow things out of proportion and cast about for someone to blame. We are talking about an area about 1/8 the size of Brooklyn with roughly 1000 enemy combatants hiding behind 15,000 or so civilians. You act like it is the Battle of the Bulge. The media did this with Tet years ago and they are trying to do it now with this (they even have Hersch in the loop.) Get a grip on your self, it is pitiful to watch.

We heard the same thing out of the media when there was a few day lag du to a sandstorm. Stop acting like a little girl and second guessing things that you have no kbowledge of.

The media did this with Tet years ago and they are trying to do it now with this (they even have Hersch in the loop.) Get a grip on your self, it is pitiful to watch.

Sure they did, and I sincerely hope we'll resume the offensive with MOAB's and a big-ass Arclight mission about 10 minutes after Dan Rather and Sy Hersh HALO into Fallujah to get the straight skinny from the jihadi @ssholes who are dancing in the street.

But we need to know when our own top guys are less than "performant" in their functions. Taking names for later. Which includes the money runners back home who watched the World Trade Center drop on 3000 people from their own office windows, but wouldn't back off their own tax-rebate agenda.

We need to expand our active-duty base and take some of the strain off the Guard units that have been pulling rear-echelon duty in Iraq and flying big hours in the logistical train. We need to bite the bullet and bulk up. Dubya's old man put half a million guys into Kuwait, fully equipped and fully backed with naval gunfire-support and all-arms air assets that Bush II couldn't scrape together if he had to. It's time to admit that this was a bad time to downsize and "restructure".

*Stop acting like a little girl and second guessing things that you have no kbowledge of.*

And I suppose *you* do have first-hand knowledge, huh? Are you posting tonight from a foxhole on the front lines? How's the desert air?
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Talk about your armchair generals, indeed.

BTW, calling someone you disagree with a "little girl" is a pretty poor display of debating skills, but that's just me. Feel free to continue dazzling us with your keen recess-yard skills in the art of third-grade argumentation.

We are talking about an area about 1/8 the size of Brooklyn with roughly 1000 enemy combatants hiding behind 15,000 or so civilians. - The media did this with Tet years ago ..

If the area is sooo small and the enemy so insignificant - Then why not go in and take care of this little crap?

The difference between Tet and now is that - In Tet we took back everything that was overrun including the city of Hue. We did not REPOSITION, WE RETOOK.