Bush: POCKETS OF RESISTANCE IN FALLUJAH. Bwahahahaha!!!

[LittleApple81]

I saw in MSNBC part of his "statements" during the Sweede's visit. The anchor came on right afterwards and asked their "military consultant" (a retired general, I think) what he thought of Bush*'s statement that there were pockets of resistance in Fallujah. The General said that he thought it might be "a way" to put it but from what we have seen it ain't so. He said the Iraqis have taken our best and brightest and are putting up a credible resistance.
See...even the ex-military don't believe him.

[prodigal_green]

1. To Quote Jon Stewart

I'd be happy with pockets of acceptance.

[LittleApple81]

2. He is always right on target. He is one of the few things

that makes me wish to get extended cable.

[OpSomBlood]

3. A pocket the size of a graveyard. n/t

[Jacobin]

4. 135,000 troops plus tens of thousands of mercenaries

and they are still fighting to evict the invaders and dimson calls them "pockets of resistance".........

Those are some big pockets. Must be cargo pants.

[lovedems]

5. Whoever the military analyst for CNN is, he is sure pissed at the

pentagon right now. We all know the troops need armored vehicles and apparently we have alot in storage from Vietnam and some are even in the middle east. He wants to know why in the hell the pentagon isn't rolling them out now. The troops don't need armored vehicles in a couple weeks, they need them now and they are just sitting on them.

[bryant69]

7. Hey that would be expensive

And God knows that Bush administrations number 1 priority is making sure that the tax cuts for the wealthy don't get touched.

Bryant
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[lovedems]

8. From what I gather, the pentagon want to assemble some sort of

small armored tank (I can't remember the name but it might be stryker) so while the troops sit in harms way waiting for more strykers, they could use these A-113 (?) and get them the protection they need NOW. According to this military analyst, they would be more then sufficient to do the job.

Go figure, take money and time to make the strykers or use what we already have. Apparently some of these A13's are already in Kuwait and could be there quickly.

I think they just want to poor more money into the defense contractors pockets ergo they will use the strykers.

[underpants]

10. Armored Humvee $50K, Stryker $1.4M, Bradley $3.6-M

I ran across some writer for newsweek on the "THe Big Story" on Fox talking about this. Then they had a Repub congressman on saying that EVERYONE (including US civilians) in Iraq had body armor-I don't know if that is true but at least this guy was on the case and said if anyone knows anyone who DOESN'T have body armor call him. A Dem congresswoman was on saying a study showed that 1/4 of the casualties could have been prevented if they had been fully armored BEFORE the war.

Armored Humvees are being made 300 per month. I'll see if I can track down a link on this.

[lovedems]

12. I think the family members of these troops have already spent money

out of their own pockets to provide the body armor. I remember reading an article a few months back that the Halliburton contractors had all of the armored humvees and when they were travelling through the towns of Iraq, the contractors were in the armored humvess surrounded by the troops in the light skinned humvees.

I will see if I can find the story on that.

[Robbien]

6. Good, I would be very worried if they believed BushCo crap

These military guys might preach this warmongering garbage to their troops. But hopefully they have their eyes open and know the enemy they are fighting against. These military guys have our troop's, our daughters and sons, lives in their hands.

[prodigal_green]

9. These military guys

know what war is about. The problem is the civilians in charge of the military, including the commander in Chimp.

[LittleApple81]

11. Ten precision bombs were dropped on the southern part of the city.

It looks like it is not a pocket... we are going to convert it into a humongous crater.
Just talking to reporter on MSNBC (1:04 p.m. ET)

[LittleApple81]

13. They also dropped bombs on the northern part of the city. n/t

[LittleApple81]

14. Americans are not going into Fallujah yet because they are still TRAINING

THE IRAQIS.... BWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH