3 Flawed Assumptions [Pentagon war plan deemed abysmal failure]

TIME Exclusive ^ | From Apr. 07, 2003 issue of TIME magazine | By JOHANNA MCGEARY

[Southack]

Indeed. As you said, the title of this thread shouldn't be "3 Flawed Assumptions" so much as it should be "3 Flawed Inferrences" by a failed Leftist hack of an author.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

There is some delicious irony here.By this point in the war,the media could be expected to start the wailing about the large numbers of Iraqi dead-like they did in GWI, which put pressure,IMHO,on President Bush to start the negotiations for a cease fire. They can't whipsaw from the "quagmire/failed war plan" bandwagon to "it's a turkey shoot and unfair" now and hope we don't notice. Although,I expect some to try.

[spodefly]

I can visualize one of our soldier reading this "Exclusive" nonsense in Time magazine whilst sitting on one of Saddam's gold plated toilets ... on the TV in the same bathroom, ABC news anchor Peter Jennings is frowning and talking of quagmire and failed war planning.

The leftist media in the US is a JOKE, and more and more people are seeing it everyday.

[Southack]

The coiled snake is the Gadsden flag (named after the militia unit that carried it), and the red/white striped sea snake version is the legal U.S. Naval Jack, which our ships have been flying since 9/11 (in addition to using it in our Revolutionary War).

[mabelkitty]

Our "stupid" President played rope-a-dope and won; again.

Sigh!

If he's so stupid, yet he outsmarts them, does that make them mentally challenged?

[henbane]

Eat hearty, you dimwits.

Plenty more helpings on the way.

[itzmygun]

Johanna should have remembered Jesse Jackson's advice:

"Stay out the Bushes! Stay out the Bushes!"

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ctdonath2]

THERE WOULD BE LITTLE RESISTANCE

Soldier observes little resistance while sitting in Saddam's chair.

THERE WOULD BE DANCING IN THE STREETS

Let the celebrations begin.

THE WAR PLAN COVERED ALL CONTINGENCIES

Including bringing a flag to promote a sports team.

Calling JOHANNA MCGEARY - your crow is ready.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

But in this media age, expectations are almost as much a part of any war as the battlefield. As even military strategists note, flexibility and muscle, not theories, lead to victory. That's something the military planners of Gulf War II are now taking into account.

And something the LIBERALS were hoping their harping, spinning and handwringing would prevent. What asses.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

US Navy Seabee gets a hug from an Iraqi boy near a playground built by the Seabees in Umm Qasr(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

How will they ever recover from this?

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[Jeff Head]

We are definitely ...

Despite all of the leftist network and Iraqi propoganda ministry pronouncements to the contrary.

Best Fregards mi Amigo.

[Carry_Okie]

Bummer when events unfold faster than the time it takes to write the article and print all those expensive magazines... It's getting tough these days to make a buck in the mind-control business trying to look insightful. How is a megabuck media company going to deliver on its ability to sway majority opinion, when events keep outstripping their agitprop production process?

Answer: Just-In-Time News Copy!

Time, Inc., in order to serve its customers by appearing sufficiently prescient to deserve subscription receipts, will have to do up a menu of possible articles, in advance of any possible news event, each article designed to fit any number of possible outcomes and still toe The Party Line.

Can you imagine the cobbled up results? Sounds like material appropriate to The Onion, doesn't it?

They'll also need a staff of editors capable of pasting it all together. It could get expensive too... enough to drive them out of business. Well, it's either that or lose the readership...

Being liberals, of course, they'll be operating at a severe intellectual handicap, especially spinning outcomes they hate to even contemplate. I doubt even our leftist universities are up to meeting that kind of demand but I'm sure they'll try. Perhaps taking the emotion out of it would help? I'd bet that they might be able to generate a few algorithms so they could use software to sploot out the copy no matter what the event, standard Democrat responses being predictable as they are... Artificial intelligence might help. Anything would be an improvement.

Maybe we have a few FReeper software gurus who might offer to give them a hand? :-)

[Doctor Raoul]

Johana's still at TIME and Monica Lewinsky is a TV star. Go figure, since Johana's act sucks just as much.

[Valin]

"The enemy we're fighting," said army Lieut. General William Wallace last week, "is(a bit) different from the one we'd war-gamed against."

His actual quote. What a difference two words can make.

[Victoria Delsoul]

"The enemy we're fighting," said army Lieut. General William Wallace last week, "is different from the one we'd war-gamed against."

Correction: "The enemy we're fighting," said army Lieut. General William Wallace last week, "is A BIT different from the one we'd war-gamed against."