Anytime they can point to something concrete, something that's happening, it helps them refute all the allegations, all the daily news that comes in on the ongoing violence and the more-structural problems, |
Clearly, this a traumatic event of this holy day that this attack took place. |
Dozens of tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and Apache helicopters have moved in to a neighborhood in the town which is thought to be a stronghold of insurgents. |
Hijackers may be Chechens |
I think that the real emotion is one of great pride, |
If Iraq breaks up, we tend to think it will be in nice, neat parts. There seems to be no way we can ever repair this. |
Iraqi politicians could be struggling with this, and likely will be, in one form or another for years, |
It is a very volatile situation, one that has been going on for a month and will not go away. The U.S. has made it pretty clear they will react with overwhelming force if they feel threatened. |
It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from Kansas and Alabama and all over the place, and not take some of the same risks that you're asking them to take. |
It's one of the things that the Marines and the Army feel they're lacking right now, particularly the Marines, which have very few women in those roles. |
No surpise in Istanbul |
Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi president) has guranteed the safety of the passengers aboard and will treat them as if they were Iraqi citizens. |
Stability has been a concern here, but there is nothing to indicate any instability -- certainly there has been political chaos. |
They have essentially taken the south. |
They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines, |