let's see how they dance around this one

how they turn numbers in their (our) favor. how they deny this report (from someone who obviously KNOWS what's going on in iraq). where is the outrage from the american public as we send more and more women and men over there? why isn't this story at the top of EVERY news outlet? yes, it got coverage but NOT top coverage. WAKE UP

Marine calls situation in Anbar province dire
U.S. military can do little to secure region in western Iraq


By Thomas E. Ricks
Updated: 3:59 a.m. ET Sept 11, 2006

The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western al Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with its contents.
The officials described Col. Pete Devlin's classified assessment of the dire state of Anbar as the first time that a senior U.S. military officer has filed so negative a report from Iraq.............