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Brig.
Gen. Marty Dempsey, commander of the 1st Armored Division, later told
Wolfowitz: "I don't think this was targeted at you. I don't
want you to take this personally."
"I don't," Wolfowitz
replied.
Dempsey said the military had expected the guerrillas to attack in Baghdad
as a sort of retaliation for the U.S.-led administration's progress in
reopening a major bridge in the capital on Saturday.
"They clearly are trying to tie these things (attacks) to something
we have done positive. This enemy won't wave a white flag," the
general said.
Angry at U.S. occupation, Iraqis expressed regret at what they saw as
an assassination attempt had failed.
"I wish Wolfowitz had been killed. I wish all Americans here would
be killed," said Ali Hussein, a grocer in central Baghdad. "The
Americans are not human beings, they are monsters. They lied to the Iraqi
people."
THEN: [LINK]
(August
26, 2003)
The 1st AD asked Gen. Dempsey in August, "Sir, who is attacking us?"
Dempsey responded:
Right now, it’s former Saddam loyalists and criminals who are angry
at U.S. troops’ attempts to interfere with their lawlessness. But all
that’s about to change, he said.
The new enemy is terrorists, he warned. They all know the Americans
are in Iraq, and the "they all want to try and get a piece of you."
"Regional extremists are even now flocking to Baghdad because , it’s
the superbowl," Dempsey said. "They’re coming here now and starting to
get organized."
Dempsey is warning his troops to get ready for an enemy "that wants
to make a big, big splash, like dropping the Palestine," a major hotel
where many Westerners live.
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* * Comment:
The
general tells Wolfowitz not to take it personally despite the fact
he was predicting "a big splash" to his own 1st AD
troops two months ago. He even got the target right: a hotel. Wolfowitz
was a "big splash." Of course it's personal. The Iraqis are
giving Wolfowitz a taste of what "shock and awe" feels like. It's
tragic to witness top ranking generals bending over backwards to
prop up White House liars and connivers at the expense of their own troops'
welfare.
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