[CLUE-Talk] The military takes a cue from Microsoft

[Jeff Cann]

On Monday 13 October 2003 8:32 pm, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> > When you hear about things like this, it really brings into question
> > whether you can trust anything coming from the Bush administration.
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/World/iraq031013_letters-1.html
>
> <quote>
> [Lt. Colonel] Caraccilo wrote that his staff drafted the letter, he edited
> it and reviewed it and then offered it to the soldiers. "Every soldier who
> signed that letter did so after a careful read," he said. "Some, who could
> find the time, decided to send their own versions, while others chose not
> to take part in the initiative."
> </quote>
>
> jed

Just because some Lt. Colonel wrote a letter saying that everything is peachy 
keen in Iraq seems pretty lame when I read this on Google News (from 
tomorrows' Gulf Daily News):

<quote>Three American soldiers and an Iraqi were killed yesterday (10/13/03) 
in fresh violence in Iraq as several people were arrested following a Baghdad 
bomb blast a day earlier that killed eight people.</quote>

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Articles.asp?Article=64158&Sn=WORL

Who you gonna' believe?

Jeff