The Road to Confrontation in Najaf

[necso]

NYT.

Ok, so now both the current fiasco in Najaf and the previous fiasco in Falluja were the fault of the Marines.

Glad to know that these weren't politically inspired actions. --- I eagerly await hearing which low ranking folks were responsible for the whole damn mess!

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/21/opinion/21sat1.html

disinformation: n. Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion or the government in another nation.

Command and control problems would not be the sort of information normally released to the media. It might, perchance, give your enemies some advantage... to say nothing of the effects on morale.

And I suppose that the fighting in Baghdad (where the !@#$'s have apparently found a way to knock out Abrams tanks) is due to some sort of rogue unit too.

This shit is going seriously bad, people.

[Sinistrous]

1. Nothing but

Apparently nobody above the rank of E3 is responsible for anything anymore.

[necso]

2. This stuff is simply an outrage... ... ... n/t