Joint Chiefs Chairman: War Going Well

[True_Blue]

LAWRENCE, Kan. - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday that the war in Iraq is going "reasonably well" but acknowledged the United States faces long-term involvement there.

Gen. Richard Myers told reporters that fighting terrorism also is a long-term commitment and said, "Decades is probably not unreasonable."

Myers also said loosening a ban on top members of Saddam Hussein's former Baath party is important "so they feel a part of the new Iraq." He also defended the Pentagon's policy against releasing photos of flag-draped coffins of soldiers.

"There's some really tough challenges in Iraq, but it's actually going reasonably well," he said.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/8507044.htm

[falcon]

1. Decades!

God help us!

[alittlelark]

8. Decades, or until the OIL RUNS OUT...

...whichever comes first.

[54anickel]

20. Terrorism is to replace Communism for their stupid war and military

justification. They miss having the "C" word to instill fear and patriotism in the public. I'm reminded so many times of back when I was a kid and people were digging shelter's in their back yards, stocking them with supplies, the air raid siren tests, the stupid signs around town for designated air raid shelters, etc.

This is only the beginning of another war against another "ideology" used to mask the real intent of empire and world domination. It's getting old, then again, so am I.

[David Dunham]

2. What is this guy smoking?

[saigon68]

27. HE'S PROBABLY SMOKING CRACK



Gen. BLUE SUIT MEYERS puppet boy, US military catamite, appointed by Cheney Caesar in the year of Our Lord 2001

His quotes “Duh, we are winning” and on the increased violence that flared up this month is "a symptom of the success that we're having here in Iraq"

And "No my hand is not grabbing at her breast"

Also on the subject of Fallujah "We went in because we had to find the perpetrators and what we found was a huge rat's nest that is still festering today. It needs to be dealt with,"

[nolabels]

33. You do know when they have to get them FOUR stars up there

to tell about the success it would be easy to make that there is something fishy going on.

When truth becomes self evident and goes without saying, then people are left to their own means to do what they must



http://www.peacenowar.net/

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Shadopws of Westmorelnd, HUH?

I understand though that the boy really cannot fully question
his CiC... he is being a good loyal soldier, but boy things are
going well... really Richard, ask the troops fighting and dying.

[amandabeech]

26. Bring back the Body Count! n/t

[osaMABUSh]

4. 1984: bad is good; good is evil - keep that propaganda machine

rolling.

[AlCzervik]

5. War going well

on opposite day!!!! Pure government issued malarky.

[Minstrel Boy]

6. How can the war in Iraq be going "reasonably well"

when it's still going on? It's been over a year now. Is it simply that they've been getting better at it, with so much practice?

[Union Thug]

7. These people need a lobotomy

It's the only way to protect the rest of the world from their power + stupidity= chaos equation.

[maddezmom]

21. seems to me they've already had them

:crazy:

[Robbien]

9. The embassy they are building will need lots of defending

According to this "limited" sovereignty deal, there will be a US minder for every position in the new Iraqi government. That will be thousands of US citizens who will need the army defending them against those uppity Iraqis.

[Ilsa]

10. The American Public:

"Oh yeah, how's that going over there? I forgot. Good thing you got that 9-11 terrist, Sad-dam Hussein. Need to mow those brown-skins down. blah blah blah"

[Cocoa]

11. things look like they're spinning out of control

Myers's claims are worthless, he's a liar.

[mike_c]

12. "Decades is probably not unreasonable...."

Swine. Pig-f*cking bastards. These pigs do not represent me or my country.

[IndianaGreen]

13. Joint Chiefs Chairman: "we are winning the war in Vietnam."

I am convinced of four things: (1) we are winning the war in Vietnam; (2) I cannot predict when the war will end; (3) although the tide of battle is running against Hanoi, they are not yet convinced that they cannot win; and (4) flowing from item (3), Hanoi is not yet ready to negotiate an end to the war.

General Earle Gilmore Wheeler
Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (1962–64)
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (1964–70)

—Address before the Economic Club of Detroit
(December 18, 1967)

http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/2417pgs.pdf

[icymist]

14. Going well for who? Haliburton?

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

I'd puke more, but I see enough emesis at my job in the nursing home!

[xray s]

15. JCS will always say "the war is going well"

They have to.

[Demeter]

16. Going Well For Who?

The generals aren't dying, the visiting politicos aren't dying, so it's going well?

There wasn't any terrorism in Iraq until we opened the doors for it.

Now there will never be an end to it. Good job, fellas.

[rooboy]

17. And in latest developments, Marilyn Monroe in good health. n/t

[hadrons]

18. War IS going well ....

when viewed from Dumsfeld's ass ... where Myers' currently resides

[dusty64]

19. The "war" is going great

and will last about 30 years, WTF are these people on?

[0007]

22. Did the media ask Gen. Richard Myers

If he was talking about the insurgents or another situation.

I bet Saddam even feels proud of the new Iraq and the progress.

[Mountainman]

23. The war that should have never happened is going well?

BS! It is wrong that the war is going at all! That's like saying my cancer is developing just fine.

[Failure]

24. More of that "Light at the end of the tunnel bullshit"

n/t

[Snellius]

25. Why do I get the feeling that Myers is like one of those hostages

taken prisoner by an overwhelming power, a captor whom he hates but who's been brainwashed or intimidating into repeated whatever statement is put in front of him and told verbatim to read. Somehow, when he says "decades is probably not unreasonable", it almost seems like he's trying to send us some encoded, indirect message "Please, help me get out of this madness. What we are doing is only making it worse."

[JoFerret]

28. Will it be over by Christmas?

.

[gottaB]

29. You know it's misleading to drag McNamara into this

Iraq is ten times worse.

[NeoConsSuck]

30. "War Going Well" ->Translated to NeoConese

"Oil is Flowing"

[mike1963]

31. He spends too much time in the Chief Joints of Staff...

:eyes:

[w4rma]

32. Decades, at ~$2 billion a week? (nt)

[Barkley]

34. The war is going well... 'our side' lost less lives than 'theirs'

In fact things are doing so well that we no longer need Spain,
Honduras, Dom. Republic or the U.N.

Things are so good that we don't even need the Iraqis!

I guess that's why we're killing so many of them.