Bush: Fallujah Getting Back to 'Normal'

[ze_dscherman]

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Wednesday he believes most parts of Fallujah are returning to ``normal'' despite three days of battles with insurgents. Fighting and instability in Iraq will not force a delay in the June 30 transfer of power, he said.

``There are pockets of resistance and our military along with Iraqis will make sure it's secure,'' Bush told reporters in the Oval Office after a meeting with the prime minister of Sweden.

A series of explosions and gunfire rocked Fallujah, a city near Baghdad, in new fighting on Wednesday, a day after a heavy battle on Tuesday in which U.S. planes and artillery pounded the city in a show of force against insurgents holed up in a slum.

Still Bush insisted: ``Most of Fallujah is returning to normal.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4031135,00.html

[stellanoir]

1. to co-opt a phrase from our favorite Parisian pit bull

Karen Hughes. . ."Light years from normal"

[rumguy]

2. Is there a point where we can impeach * for insanity?

[wysimdnwyg]

3. WTF???

OK, we're gearing up to send friggen' TANKS into the middle of town, but things are "getting back to normal". Ya sure, you betcha!

[Loonman]

4. If normal means bombed out areas and very angry people

Bush has a strange definition of normal.

[Moderator]

5. Same story, different title

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=515631