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Old September 26th 03, 06:37 AM
Kevin Brooks
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"Gene Storey" wrote in message . ..
No, but this is:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/971168.asp?0cv=CB20

"erto" wrote

Is this really true?
http://donald.rumsfeld.swellserver.c...orldrecord.php


Really? Not the way I recall the comments from ol' Barry and Wesley at
the time. ISTR they were bemoaning the operational pause that occured
immediately prior to the final push on Baghdad, and claiming that we
lacked suffcient force to carry through without sustaining heavy
casualties, etc....None of which was true, as we ended up seeing on
the evening news a couple of weeks later (and did you notice how
quickly those two fellows disappeared from the news channels when we
got to Baghdad in spite of their diatribes?). To try and turn their
gripes then into a claim that they were *really* addressing the
post-combat phase is a bit disingenious. As if Clark should have been
braying in the first place--he was the guy who told Clinton's crew
that the bombing of Kosovo would only take a matter of *days* to
accomplish NATO's goals, and who completely knuckled under to the
then-administration's stupid "no ground troops from the start and by
golly we'll *announce* that" crap.

Brooks