Collateral Damage

[seemslikeadream]

May 24, 2004 Vol. 163 No. 21



Collateral Damage

As his ratings slip, Bush finds his future increasingly linked with Iraq's. Will he prevail, or become the prisoner of his own war?

By MICHAEL DUFFY, MATTHEW COOPER AND JOHN F. DICKERSON

Just down the hall from Donald Rumsfeld's third-floor office at the Pentagon is a high-tech conference room where U.S. generals arrayed around the globe can talk to the Pentagon boss—and with his boss, if he happens to stop by. That is exactly what happened last week when Central Command chief General John Abizaid, appearing via videophone from Qatar, admitted that he was worried about the political fallout back home from the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal. Hearing this, George W. Bush peered back at Abizaid, who oversees two continuing wars in Asia, and told him to ignore the static. "You worry about getting the job done," Bush said. "You let me worry about the politics and the things back here."

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[madmax]

1. Prisoner of war has a nice ring to it.

He should become one in Abu Ghraib.

[seemslikeadream]

2. Like this? and did you see the M?

[madmax]

4. The M?

:shrug:

[madmax]

7. That is perfect!!

The M - :evilgrin:

I'll buy that issue.

[gumby]

8. The M?

Noted.

Indeed!!!

[NMDemDist2]

3. the M?? what are you talking about? eom

[newyorican]

5. The "M" in "TIME" on the cover...

form Devils horns on dubyas noggin...LOL, that cannot be an accident...

[NMDemDist2]

9. d'oh i am so literal sometimes thanks hehehe eom

[xray s]

6. Why the hell is Abizaid worried about "political fallout"?

Why is he worried about Bush losing his job?

Why is a General in the US military picking political sides?

[corriger]

10. I ask my self every day the same question

whom are the true untermenschen

--look at this guy in the photograph, the americans have starved this man

frankly my question have little to do with american politic but are instead more fundamental than this --this is a sickening aspect of the politic

[UpInArms]

11. really, when did the military get to be

political?

Or are generals like cabinet offices and ambassadorships - where the appointees are changed with each incoming administration?

Thought that they were "career" folks that stood for the country, not a politician.

Yuck.

[corriger]

12. anyone whom does not think your military political

is a fool

[UpInArms]

13. anyone who thinks that the resident 1600 Pennsylvania

is more important than the Constitution and serves in the military should be in the brig.

[Alex88]

14. Abizaid is a fool

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