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August 26, 2005

General Myers

General Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said today that you aren't getting an accurate picture of what is going on in Iraq.

I am concerned about what appears to be a growing gap between what people are hearing back here in the United States and with what we saw on this trip.

Opinion polls show public support is low and waning further in America, but Gen. Myers just got back from Iraq, and he continues;

Our troops overwhelmingly want reassurance that they will be allowed to finish what we began four years ago.

I wonder what the bring-them-home-now crowd thinks of this.
(I heard this story on NPR of all places.)

This sounds familiar;

If we're a nation at war, the most important thing we have right now in this kind of conflict is our will and our resolve... and if you look at what the adversary is trying to do, of course, their whole strategic communications plan, if you will, is to try to weaken that resolve.

(discussed here yesterday)

While enlistments are down, reenlistments are up. Who do you suppose knows more about the realities of the situation? Casey Sheehan or his mom?

More from General Myers;

This military can do anything as long as they have the will and resolve of the American people...

Wulf Posted by Wulf on August 26, 2005 at 06:25 PM

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