What do you say now, Don?

[dropzone]

Central Command chief Gen. John Abizaid said American forces were now engaged in guerrilla war in Iraq and must adapt their tactics to crush an increasingly organized, cell-based resistance spearheaded by Saddam loyalists.

His comments contradicted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who said on June 30 that it was not “anything like a guerrilla war or an organized resistance.”

Abizaid told a Pentagon briefing the Iraqis "are conducting what I would describe as a classical guerrilla-type campaign against us. It’s low-intensity conflict in our doctrinal terms, but it’s war however you describe it.

“The level of resistance … is getting more organized and it is learning. It is adapting. … And we’ve got to adapt to their tactics, techniques and procedures.”

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20030716/ts_nm/iraq_dc

He’s the pro. Abizaid should know if anybody does so I guess it’s a guerilla war after all.

Rumsfeld would be funny if he weren’t so evil.

[Tarantula]

Donald the evil weevil.

[RTA]

I believe we have a quote:

“Jiminy Crickets, the situation has not gone higgeldy-piggeldy! Everyone’s all ‘ooh, mother of mercy, henny-penny, ashes-ashes, all fall down’ and it’s just not … anyway we’re not fighting guerillas, we’re fighting people, and some doggone bad apples at that.”

[Soup_du_jour]

RTA, the first time I read that, I thought it started with “Jimmy Carter.” :eek:

Now that would be strange.

[Liberal]

Maybe it was a busy two weeks.

[Skywatcher]

Sec. Rumsfeld, how about giving our troops a set date for them to be rotated out and stick to it?

Troops: “When are we going home?”

Rumsfeld: “May.”

Troops in May: “When are we going home?”

“June.”

In June: “When are we going home?”

“July.”

In July: “When are we going home?”

“August.”

The Pentagon: “Uh, Mr. Secretary? The earliest we can get them out is September.”