The kind of thing you can do when you get paid to do it
Denying reality even as critically wounded U.S. soldiers were fighting for their lives in a German hospital after the Mosul bombing, General Dick "Quag" Myers acted this afternoon as if he were still on tour with his fellow USO celebrities.
There's no other explanation for the blatant lie the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told an assemblage of reporters at the Pentagon about yesterday's dining-hall bombing in Iraq:
- This attack, of course, is the responsibility of insurgents, the same insurgents who attacked on 9-11,
the same type of insurgents who attacked in Beirut, the same insurgents
who—type of insurgents who attacked the, Khobar Towers, and the list
goes on.
Don't bullshit us, General. Don't lump together the Sunni resistance in Iraq—or the Shiite resistance to our occupying troops—with the Saudi hijackers who bombed New York City and the Pentagon.
It was clear from the performance of both Myers and SecDef Don Rumsfeld at the press briefing that they have no friggin' idea how to stanch the flow of U.S. blood. (They don't care about Iraqi blood; if you do, go to Iraq Body Count for the latest scores.)
Myers seems much more comfortable as a celebrity general on tour with the USO (see photos). It's astonishing that he and Rumsfeld still have their jobs.
