Apparently Rumsfeld and Abizaid no longer share the optimism of the keyboard blowhard as to whether this war is militarily winable. In the absence of any serious effort to cut off funding from the Gulf or the flow of jehadis from Syria it's not.
What the keyboard blowhard does not comprehend is that the jehadi isn't a soldier. He's a warrior. The focus of the soldier is on military victory and in Iraq the insurgents cannot militarily win. The focus of the warrior is on glory and being a hero. Every jehadi who comes home from fighting the Americans will be a hero for the rest of his life to his countrymen. Given that appeal, the supply of recruits is inexhaustible.
Yesterday Secretary Rumsfeld and General AbiZaid made the rounds of the Sunday talks show specifically to stand up and expose the lies and distortions of defeatist people like you, the liberals, their media whores, and the knee jerk phony conservatives who are telling us that we cannot win this war, we lost this war, we should cut and run, and all the other defeatist and cowardly statement they are saying each day.
Secretary Rumsfeld and General AbiZaid were very clear that we are winning this war and we are going to win this war, but it will take strong effort and determination to achieve it.
It is really amazing how are you using these two gentlemen and fabricating things about them where in reality what they said is exactly opposite to your defeatist attitude. President Bush will give a prime time speech tomorrow about the war in Iraq and he will tell us that we are winning this war and we will reach the ultimate victory. We will see how you are going to distort what he is going to say.
As I told before you need to go somewhere else and preach your defeatism, DU sounds a good place for people like you.
You are good at taking snippets from interviews to justify your defeatist attitude. Please read the complete interview before commenting on something you obviously have no idea about.
Here's another link in case your interested.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050627/ap_on_re_mi_ea/britain_iraq