The Daily Background

You might have heard that the Pentagon’s top Gen, General Pace said yesterday:

[things in Iraq are]… going very, very well from everything you look at.

Outrageous. People are saying he’s totally out of touch with reality:

The comments drew criticism that Gen. Peter Pace is glossing over problems in the three-year-old U.S. campaign.

“Why would I believe him?” asked Rep. John Murtha D-Pa., a major critic of the Bush administration’s handling of the war.

Translation? Totally out of touch with reality. And more are saying:

“We’re in a civil war now; it’s just that not everybody’s joined in,” said retired Army Maj. Gen. William L. Nash, a former military commander in Bosnia-Herzegovina. “The failure to understand that the civil war is already taking place, just not necessarily at the maximum level, means that our counter measures are inadequate and therefore dangerous to our long-term interest.

“It’s our failure to understand reality that has caused us to be late throughout this experience of the last three years in Iraq,” added Nash, who is an ABC News consultant.

Translation? Totally out of touch with reality.

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