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    26 August 2005

    Myers faults poor war PR
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    Top U.S. officer faults leaders on terrorism war stakes
    The top U.S. military officer faulted U.S. political leaders on Friday for failing to get across what he portrayed as the huge stakes in
    Iraq and elsewhere in the U.S.-declared global war on terrorism.

    "The most important thing we have ... right now in this kind of conflict is our will and our resolve," Gen. Richard Myers, outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the
    Pentagon, adding the U.S. public does not get the stakes.

    "I think it's incumbent on the national leadership, writ large, to help communicate this to the American public," said Myers...

    "The soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen engaged in this fight are the reason we are winning. Their successes are the untold story of the global war on terrorism, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom," he said.

    He contrasted the national mood with World War II, when Americans planted "victory gardens" of vegetables and took part in scrap metal and paper collection drives to boost the military effort.

    I agree, we've made no support our troops, we have had tax cuts and poor funding on essential protections for our soldiers. One thing we could've done is vote out bushCo. but we failed at that. Another thing that should be done but wont (because it would piss off the republican base) is raise taxes, and raise it double on the very rich.

    More on this story.

    It will be hard to regain the support for this attack; which once had WMD, al Qaida and then human rights as rationales. But there were no WMD and the story appears to have been fixed. We brought al Qaida to Iraq, and now the new constitution will probably turn back women rights and give disproportional influence to the Shi'a and Kurds.

    I support our troops wherever they are deployed, that doesn't mean that I have to support the people that send them there; they are not packaged together.

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