CNN (Pollack): " U.S. Troop Morale Is Now High In Iraq"

[Dinger]

Another one:

"Military Is Now Making Progress In Iraq"

Sheesh

[leftofthedial]

1. they are optimistic and morale is high

and the surge is working

and al Qaeda is on the ropes and is being eliminated by our Sunni allies

and the Iraqis love us

really

no, really

he did make one true statement--it's surreal

[acmavm]

2. Next they'll be telling us things are so great they don't ever want

to come home.

[The Count]

3. Why? Any good jokes we missed?

[swag]

4. He's defending his early cheerleading for the invasion,

while portraying himself as a long-time critic of the Bush administration. CNN is buying his portrayal of himself, hook, line, and sinker.

[Mika]

8. CNN isn't buying his portrayal of himself.. they're selling it.

Nuttin' but shills.

[catmandu57]

5. The Chocolate ration

will be doubled tomorrow.

[billyoc]

6. The heroin traffickers must have straightened out their supply routes. n/t

[devilgrrl]

7. How's the moral in Eurasia? People downing 'Victory Gin' by the glassful?

:-|

[KharmaTrain]

9. Move Those Goal Posts Another FU

Ya gotta love a self-annointed critic who both supported this invasion and the surge and now pretends that there's no paper trail. Yet, Time/Warner continues to shell out a paycheck to this hack as an "expert" who has been wrong on everything he's predicted or stood up for. It's like a baseball team sticking with a bad player just cause they have to pay him...so they might as well play him.

The "Tet Moment" of this incursion is still to come and it'll be turds like Pollack who will once again surface (cause he's an "expert" cause someone paid him to be one) who will again kick another Friedman Unit around and blame the "critics" (which he claims he is or was or could be) for how everything's gone wrong.

This is all an orchestrated game to buy GOOP candidates some time...push this quagmire past next year's primaries so the right wing votes and money can be collected...then they'll "run for the middle"...thing the voters were too stupid to remember whose prolonged this mess.

[coalition_unwilling]

14. "Tet moment" - think "Stalingrad moment" (when an entire German

army under Von Paulus was surrounded by Zhukov and had to surrender).

[Totally Committed]

10. Ken Pollack is a scary M-Fer. He'll say anything for a $ and a minute in front of a camera.

That having been said, I want whatever it is he's smoking.

Unbelieveable statement. I can't fathom anyone saying that with a straight face.

TC

[Mandate My Ass]

11. And the beatings will continue to keep it up there

:eyes:

[dkofos]

12. I think Pollack is HIGH!!

[bdamomma]

13. yea tell it to this number who have already perished

3646 it is growing every day, and it must stop. Just like the people who are running it.

[Individualist]

15. Pollack is a Brookings Institution shill

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1436

[EFerrari]

16. Is that some other Iraq?

:shrug:

[Dinger]

23. That's What I'm Thinkin'

Nuthin' else makes sense.

[spanone]

17. War is a major profit center for cable 'news' channels. Shock & Awe baby.....

cnn should be held to war crimes with their complicity in this war not to mention the other unmentionables.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. "The surge is working"

[applegrove]

19. They finally have the troops the generals called for in 2003. So it

works a little better this war. Neocons tore up all the military plans to begin with. Hope that doesn't get lost in history.

[Mandate My Ass]

21. Not even close

The generals in 2003 predicted the need for hundreds of thousands of troops, not 120,000 + a few thou more.

[applegrove]

24. You are correct.

[mikeytherat]

27. Gen. Shinseki stated "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed.

After being told he was "wildly off the mark," he was shown the door.

mikey_the_rat

[Ikonoklast]

20. Funny, I talked to a Marine Saturday

Friend of my daughter, just back from his second tour. Good kid.

He tells me that, to a man, they HATE being there and the Iraqis HATE them for being there.

Seems that his opinion, and those of his fellow Marines, differ from those of Mr.Pollack.

I guess that 'reality' thing can make ones' opinion be in variance from those that are delusional.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

22. I 'll beleive that

shit if say CNN's Michael Ware says it.

[Drum]

25. I think the journalsists are high. nt

[marmar]

26. I hope Mr. Pollack enjoyed his weekend in Amsterdam....

Dampkring is a helluva coffeeshop! :smoke:

[depakid]

28. What does anyone expect from CNN?

That channel's programmed off of my TV- just as FOX and the spam channels are.

No sense in even stumbling over that crap accidentally.

[B Calm]

29. When Bush and congress take the month of August off while they're

sweating their balls off in the Iraqi heat, you think that will lift their morale even higher?

[lebkuchen]

30. Troop mentality now is "short matchstick"

"The more deployments, the more likely I will choose it."

[jimshoes]

31. Someone's high

that's for sure.

[butterfly77]

32. BUSHIT!

[tom_paine]

33. And the Mockingbird goes tweet tweet tweet

How swiftly the US took on the major characteristics of the old USSR once the old USSR collapsed.

Simply amazing.

[Dinger]

34. He Was Just On CBS Pimping His Shit

What a punk, no, make that a punk-ass chump!!