Friday, June 22, 2007
Odie Cologne comes close to insubordination
That pretty much sums the remarks of the good general has he acknowledged the fact that 80% of the "alQaeda" leadership left town before the attack began. And he blamed it on loose lips in the American command.
“Frankly, I think they knew an operation was coming in Baquba,” General Odierno said in a teleconference briefing with Pentagon reporters from the American military headquarters in Baghdad. “They watched the news. They understood we had a surge. They understood Baquba was designated as a problem area. So they knew we were going to come sooner or later.”That is not how generals speak to the press. Odie can say that back at the office to the "Surge-On" General or "Big Swinging" Gates, but he is on thin ice when he goes public. Maybe the job is too much for Odie.
Still, he implied American commanders may have played a part by flagging the offensive in advance. “I think they were tipped off by us talking about the surge, the fact that we have a problem in Diyala Province,” he said.
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