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| Iraq |
| Franks in Qatar |
| 2003-03-13 |
| The senior American general who would command U.S. troops in any military action against Iraq is in Qatar, visiting his forward command center. The visit by General Tommy Franks is part of a tour he is making of several countries in the Middle East. Ohfergawdsake! Get out there with your troops and stay there, dammit! A spokesman for the forward command at Qatar's As-Sayliyah base told VOA that General Franks spent his second day in the country meeting with staff and conferring with commanders in the field. The official declined to provide details of the visit or say what other countries the general might visit. General Franks has not met with the news media on this trip, with the exception of an interview with the American broadcast network, ABC. He told the network on Thursday that if President Bush decides to take military action against Iraq, his forces are ready. "We have sufficient - I use the word capacity, not levels of troops, not counts of bombs - we have the military capacity to do the job that America's military would be asked to do," he said. Stop talking like a lawyer and get on station. Or is all this going to be run at the subordinate command level? Franks really worries me. I keep thinking "Westmoreland." I hope I'm being ungenerous... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |