To paraphrase George Orwell 'It's not what you say but how you say it."
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"But he acknowledged "a form of descending consent'' for the U.S. military presence occurring among Iraqis as time passes. "
Yep. Felluja is all about consent. Just a different way of showing it.
"History is going to have to decide whether that was right or not,'' he said.
or
It's not up to me to decide weather what I'm doing is good or evil. It's up to historians.
"So part of me says our jobs may have been easier had we just found a way to keep some of the Baath Party in place,''
Cause obviously I can't.
During the recent militia attacks, "about 50 percent of the security forces that we've built over the past year stood tall and stood firm,'' he said.
I guess that's why they call it a standing army. Fighting on the other hand...
But sometimes you just can't.... I can't. I just can't understand how thick some of these guys are.
"We have to get this latest increase in violence under control,'' Dempsey said. "We have to take a look at the Iraqi security forces and learn why they walked.''
"It's very difficult at times to convince them that Iraqis are killing fellow Iraqis and fellow Muslims, because it's something they shouldn't have to accept,'' he said. "Over time I think they will probably have to accept it.''
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the deadliest of them all? Never mind the least Muslim and Iraqi.
"There is a point where it doesn't matter how well we're doing, it won't be accepted that we have a large military presence here,'' he said. "We're all working very diligently trying to figure out where that point is.''
This I can't refute. They certainly are working 24/7 to reach that point. Then again I think I can. I think they reached it a little over a year ago and just weren't able to see it. Yah know, all that blinding hubris 'n all.
But Dempsey added: "On the other hand, the entire part of the population that was disenfranchised during these 35 years, largely the Shiite population, absolutely has no trust in any former member of the Baath Party. So we found ourselves exactly in the middle of this.''
Found yourselves? I think the word you're looking for is put.