If you didn’t watch the interview last sunday you didn’t miss much except for a few sound bites from Gen. Casey. A few I found interesting was:

“I wouldn’t categorize Swarmer as a major combat operation. It was an operation to go out into a almost uninhabited area.”

“if he [the enemy] is dumb enough to mass again like he, like he did in Fallujah, then, you know, he’ll have to bear the consequences.”

“I think people need to, to put this in a little bit more perspective and not think so much about what they’ve seen on television over the last three weeks, and think about what’s been going on here over the last three years.”

“…the levels of participation increased, the levels of violence decreased…”

(earlier interview) “By this time next year… Assuming that the political process continues to go positively, and the Sunni are included in the political process, and the Iraqi army continues to progress and develop as we think it will, we should be able to take some fairly substantial reductions in the size of our forces.”

“I don’t want to sugar-coat it, the situation here is fragile”

Situation Fragile is an understatement really… just google “iraq” and you’ll see that many assumptions about Iraq are wrong and we should of left years ago…

~R3D