Rummy: "Baghdad’s once-violent Haifa Street is now more peaceful "

[sabra]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10253079/

Rumsfeld ticked off several indicators of progress on the military front, including:

• U.S. forces have turned over control of about 29 military bases to the Iraqis.
  
• Baghdad’s once-violent Haifa Street is now more peaceful and under the control of an Iraqi army battalion.
  
• The Iraqi army has seven division and 31 brigade headquarters in operation, compared with none in July 2004.
  
• The number of Iraq army battalions “in the fight” has grown to 95, compared to five in August 2004.
  
  

:think:

[Loonman]

1. Then walk down Haifa Street with no bodyguards or flak jacket

Rummy, you jackass.

[ohio_liberal]

2. One street is less violent!

That's ONE street. Progress!! :sarcasm:

[sabra]

3. Seems to me like they are really stretching to find

"progress"

[ohio_liberal]

11. Hell, he's been stretching for two years now

I remember watching that old fool on Meet the Press several months ago. He was literally wringing his hands when he spoke of Iraq. Telling lies the whole while, of course.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Umm Rummy is that still the same guy carrying the same vase...

...through the same crowd of the same "few dead enders" I see on my TV? Or are these new ones?

Don

[Missy M]

5. Haifa Street is now more peaceful so does that mean there are only...

five bombings a day instead of 10?

[aquart]

6. They control one street? Wow.

[EFerrari]

7. This is what desperation sound like

when voiced by a megalomaniac.

Thank you, Cindy and everyone who has stood up to these criminals.

:thumbsup:

Edit: Rate it up, folks. People need to read this. :)

[triguy46]

8. "more peaceful" just shows that all things are relative.

Doesn't mean it would be safe for rummy to walk down the street at 3PM unescorted, just that it is "safer." Not "safe" in absolute terms, just relatively speaking.

[Wilber_Stool]

9. But they still haven't secured the road to the

airport. Yeah, much better.

[Stockholm]

10. That street is going to be hit big time now

Is he planning to buy property?