You have no sensation from the neck down.
Standing over you is Army Gen. Petraeus. He tells you it'll be a week before he can give you all the information, but the good news is : " We were able to save your toes." He obliquely refers to some other, not-so-good news, but you'll have to wait on that. He has to get his diagnosis approved by his boss first. His boss, who is neither a soldier nor a doctor, is the decider in your case...
Then he leaves and you are left to wonder: My toes? Which ones? How many? What about the parts of my body that are not toes? May I please have some Valium?
Writing to his troops, the top U.S. commander in Iraq emphasized that violence there had diminished in eight of the last 11 weeks. But while "many of us had hoped this summer would be a time of tangible political progress," Petraeus said in a letter addressed to "Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, and Civilians" serving in Iraq that "it has not worked out as we had hoped."
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Violence has decreased? The US suffered 18 combat deaths in the first six days of September alone. At that rate, we will lose 90 men and women this month. If a body count of under 100 per month is considered "progress", I'd have to say that we are well and truly fucked.
Of course, as Petraeus suggests, we always could wait six more months...we've been "giving it more time" since 2003 but hey, maybe the 4,000th time is the charm.
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very sad allan, very sad indeed...
so did you find a rhyming word?
"Betray us?"
Bingo!
did you by any chance read the sunday funny papers?..or do you get opus?...check it out on line..it's the funniest bit on bush and pertreaus you'll ever see..I laughed all morning just thinking about it..
Having a General with a Greek name like Petraeus just screams for a re-enactment of the movie 300 don't it? Send Petraeus to fight that little Jerksies who although is much more vertically challenged than Xerxes, is the King of the evilist Neo-Persian Empire in Iranistan.
I am concerned that Bush, well not him but whoever actually makes the decisions, will attempt the same concept of pitting 300 against hundreds of thousands of enemy combatants..
oh wait he already tried that in Iraqistan.
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