US Officer in Iraq calls Cheney a "Lying Bastard"

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Special%20Reports%20Hack.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=39&rnd=180.75151361554126

Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that continuing violence against U.S.-led forces in Iraq is diminishing, and that most Iraqis welcome the occupation. "The actual number of incidents this month is significantly below what it was last month, on a daily basis," Cheney told NBC's "Meet the Press." Most of Iraq "is relatively stable and quiet," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/15/sprj.irq.main/index.html

This from the same people who said that al-qaeda were running rampant with WMD in Iraq while Saddam shredded the blueprints for 9/11. Below are excerpts from intel summaries I wrote for the 13th and the 14th of this month. The raw data on incidents is taken from military reporting, CJTF-7 to be specific. It would seem that the vice president does not have access to this unclassified reporting. Makes me wonder if he really gives a damn about the men and women dying over here while Halliburton makes millions.

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period in August. This represents a 41% increase in IED use. If activity numbers continue at current rates, based on August patterns, it is assessed that there will be between 255-275 IED incidents in September- or approximately 38-41% of all incidents. However, this does not take changing climatological conditions (rain/temperature) into account or operational impacts due to changes in hours of daylight.

Now I'm no rocket scientist, but last time I checked, 36 and 41 percent increases are not actually "significantly lower" than anything, although maybe Stephen Hawking would say differently.

Cheers,

A CONCERNED OFFICER

[tabasco]

1. Goddam chickenhawk lying bastards don't give a damn about the troops!

I'm an infantry vet and I feeel we have the worst possible leadership for our soldiers. They are like the CEOs of a large corporation that don't care about the workers, only the profits. They are murderers because they knew there was no just cause for this war, yet they launched the war when the world was against us! These insane forecasts of welcoming Iraqis could only be believed by the stupidest of citizens. But that is the target of the neocons, the ignorant masses, who wish to stifle dissent and watch a good war on tv. I am appalled that a great number of Americans still support this cabal. I truly hope the leaders of this cabal will be prosecuted (not "persecuted" as our idiot president says), and punished when all is said and done.

[Melsky]

2. Bush said he would run the country like a business

and that may have been the one thing he wasn't lying about. It is being run like enron.

[this_side_up]

3. Profits Before People

should be on US money

and should be every company's logo

and on every govt stationary and check

[camero]

4. Yessiree

He's running the country like a business all right. Right into the ground.

[Loyal]

6. Agreed

:(

[thebigidea]

5. and a very rich lying bastard

undisclosed as always, dickie dearest.