Quagmire watch
As US forces aggressively go after the bad guys Secretary of Defense Rusfeld is asked about the "quagmire."
"...Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Rumsfeld dismissed suggestions that 146,000 U.S. troops in Iraq are engaged in a guerrilla war or bogged down in a Vietnam-like 'quagmire.'
"Rumsfeld said the five groups opposing U.S. forces -- which he identified as looters, criminals, remnants of Saddam Hussein's government, foreign terrorists and Iranian-backed Shiites -- 'are all slightly different in why they are there and what they are doing.'"
Reporter's "quagmire" fetish will continue to come up. If they are still asking the question five years from now it might be relevat. At this point, US forces are a long way from the several hundred casualties a week totals in the Vietnam war. In fact there are just a few more than 200 casualties in the whole war to date. Since the so called insurgency phase began there have been fewer than 30--some quagmire.
As US forces aggressively go after the bad guys Secretary of Defense Rusfeld is asked about the "quagmire."
"...Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Rumsfeld dismissed suggestions that 146,000 U.S. troops in Iraq are engaged in a guerrilla war or bogged down in a Vietnam-like 'quagmire.'
"Rumsfeld said the five groups opposing U.S. forces -- which he identified as looters, criminals, remnants of Saddam Hussein's government, foreign terrorists and Iranian-backed Shiites -- 'are all slightly different in why they are there and what they are doing.'"
Reporter's "quagmire" fetish will continue to come up. If they are still asking the question five years from now it might be relevat. At this point, US forces are a long way from the several hundred casualties a week totals in the Vietnam war. In fact there are just a few more than 200 casualties in the whole war to date. Since the so called insurgency phase began there have been fewer than 30--some quagmire.
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