Bush's Global War FOR Terror

Bush's Global War FOR Terror



'We Won't leave Iraq Until Our Job is Done' [Alittihad, U.A.E.]

—C-SPAN VIDEO: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon's Top Brass Testify Before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Iraq War. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers, General John Abizaid, CentCom Commander, and General George Casey , September 29, 04:11:28

He said that just one out of 86 Iraq Army battalions is operational, which means that the number dropped from 3 just 6 months ago.

In the beginning of the month, President Bush was praising the progress of the Iraqi forces and said at the White House that 3,000 of these personnel had participated along with U.S. forces in fighting insurgents in western Iraq.

Three thousand out of 180,000 means less than 1.5% of Iraqi forces are ready to fight, or in other words, the lone brigade to which Casey referred. It's not just that the President saw the glass half full and Casey saw it half empty. The President saw a drop in the bottom of the glass and tried to make us all drink from it.

It seems that President Bush's Rose Garden remarks about the capability of the Iraqi Army were just a drill; the next day Bush delivered what was described as a major speech on terrorism, and he did so quite skillfully. It came against the backdrop of a false warning about a terrorist attack on the New York subway system. [SEE VIDEO BELOW]