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05/02/2004 Entry: "You are not reading this."
With a statement like that, I could work for the government.
See, first we weren't attacking Falluja (then we did), then there was a cease-fire (only there wasn't), then we pulled out of Falluja (but we didn't), and then we realized we couldn't fight in Falluja without setting the entire Middle East on fire we turned it over to one of Saddam Hussein's former generals.
Only we didn't.
Gen. Jasim Mohamed Saleh, a former general in Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard, is not likely to take charge in the volatile Iraqi city of Falluja and is still being vetted for a possible peacekeeping role, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Sunday.There's another general they're looking at," Myers told ABC's This Week. "My guess is, it will not be General Saleh. It will not -- he will not be their leader. ... He may have a role to play, but that vetting has yet to take place."
Myers did not respond to a question on Fox News Sunday on whether Saleh, a former general in Saddam's elite Republican Guard, had been involved with the brutal suppression of Iraq (news - web sites)'s Kurdish minority, but he reiterated that Saleh was not in command of the forces inside Falluja.
"The reporting to date has been ... very, very inaccurate," Gen. Richard B. Myers told Fox News. "We've gotten a lot of help from tribal sheiks and other folks."
C'mon, Richie. Get real, for God's sake. You escorted the guy into Falluja with a goddam Iraqi flag flying from the Hummer he was riding in. It was announced with great fanfare that they guy was taking over. It was only when the feedback started about how, when we couldn't win in Falluja and people realized we had just given back a chunk of the country to the enemy, that this ridiculous spin started about him not really being in command.
These people talk out of both sides of their mouths and expect one statement to wash away a completely contradictory statement.They give us lame-assed CYA damage control and we're not supposed to notice that three days ago they were saying something completely different than what they're saying today. Unbelievable.
