Originally posted: 6:00 p.m. EDT, September 13, 2006
"Lou Dobbs Tonight"--CNN just started with this breaking news.
Jamie McIntire in Pentagon reported the unman-drone spying image in which we can see the Tailban camp targeted and confirmed.
Then our ground force was waited for the final "go-get-'em" green light from our decider.... and Bush refused!
I better back watching the latter.
It was a brief sequence, though had a impact.
The trnascript will appear later today on CNN.com. (I hope.)
Besides I read his commentary, more like a scolding letter to Bush. He smartly picked the budget issue as his specialty field, and ended with generals urge.
Worth read, since Bush must have read.
POSTED: 11:27 a.m. EDT, September 13, 2006
Dobbs: Patience favors the enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan
[Excerpt] -- Nearly 140,000 of our troops are in combat to eradicate a steadfast insurgency in Iraq, while 20,000 of our brave men and women fight to defeat the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan. Nearly 2,700 of our troops have been killed in Iraq and almost 300 of our troops have been killed in Afghanistan.
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In Iraq, the insurgency is intensifying: violence is worsening, not lessening. And on average, two of our troops are killed each and every day.
Last week, the Senate voted unanimously to spend $63 billion more to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. That brings the total amount appropriated to conduct both wars to more than $469 billion. That's more than twice the Bush administration's original estimate of $100 - $200 billion for the war in Iraq, but far less than the estimate from Nobel Laureate economist and Columbia professor Joseph Stiglitz. Along with Harvard professor Linda Bilmes, Stiglitz projects the war in Iraq will cost more than $1 trillion.
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I, for one, do not want to hear another of our generals urge the American people to be patient. Patience favors the enemy. And our generals have the responsibility to our brave troops and this nation to deliver certain victory, and that responsibility rests first and foremost with the commander in chief.
ADD'L:
Wolf's "Situation Room" also kept the same tag line.
I predict Anderson Cooper will report this issue more precisely, since he's now live-reporting from over there, Afghanistan.
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