SOMEONE NEEDS TO TAKE THE GENERAL FOR A RIDE

Maybe Dubya or Rummy Could Use a Lift

Brig. Gen. Donald Alston, speaking to reporters in Baghdad, insisted that despite the devastating bomb and an ambush that killed six Marines the day before, the fight against insurgents was going well and that the situation was improving with fewer suicide car bombs per day. "There's a clear indication that the tempo has decreased... "This is not an expanding insurgency. What we're seeing is probably the opposite," Alston said. He declined to release any charts or data showing the patterns of recent months.

I believe the day following this statement from Gen. Alston 14 more Marines were killed. Either that or he's talking about 6 more killed the day following the death of those 14 Marines. Twenty-nine Americans have died in the first five days of August.

Maybe the good General should leave the Green Zone and take a ride through Haditha in one of those amphibious sardine cans (aren't 'amphibious' things made light so they can float?) and maybe then he could get a better, more accurate accessment of what's happening to his men over there.


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