cautiously optimistic?
Via The Fighting 29th, I learned that the Kuhl campaign has developed positions on the remaining issues they list on their web page. Previously, it had links titled “Trade” or “War on Terror”, but the links were dead.
Kuhl/his staffers now write “I am cautiously optimistic about where we are headed.” Cautiously optimistic? Here’s some of his quotes, from WROC, The Corning Leader, and The D&C:
“When you fly over and you look down, we were 1,000 feet, and you see people in fields, farmers plowing fields, herding water buffalo’s. It’s life as usual.â€
“They hope to have all of the provinces turned over to the Iraqi military by the end of the year.’’ Kuhl said. “(U. S. leaders) are very impressed with the Iraqi military. It’s not inferior to U. S. military in any way.‘’
“I think our tax dollars are being well spent.â€
“I think we’ll start to see significant numbers of U.S. troops coming home by the end of this year.â€
If that’s cautious optimism, then I’m cautiously optimistic that I’ll win the lottery later this year.
Well said.
“Currently, wild populations [of water buffalo] exist in only a few protected areas in India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Another small population occurs in a wildlife reserve in Thailand.”
http://www.answers.com/topic/water-buffalo
I’m sure that if Randy Kuhl had flown over the Mekong Delta sometime in 1969, he would have seen the same thing.
Unless there is massive destruction (e.g., Flanders in 1918, Berlin in 1945), modern battlefields look pretty much normal from the air. In an area of guerilla warfare, it’s impossible to tell the worst war zone from peaceful countryside, especially outside of built up areas.
If Randy had gotten out of his damned helicopter and asked a few Iraqi peasants for their opinions on the matter, he would have gotten an earful. Dipshit! He’s about as observant and intellectually curious as Bush.
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