Re: RLC 2) Iraq disgrace
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Posted by Mike Scott on July 02, 2009 at 10:42:37
In Reply to: RLC 2) Iraq disgrace
posted by gary perris on July 01, 2009 at 13:36:41:
Here’s what conservative columnist George Will said in November 2006 about GW Bush’s Iraq policies:“But Republicans sank beneath the weight of Iraq, the lesson of which is patent: Wars of choice should be won swiftly rather than lost protractedly. On election eve the president, perhaps thinking one should not tinker with success, promised that his secretary of defense would remain. That promise perished yesterday as a result of Tuesday's repudiation of Republican stewardship, which, although emphatic, was not inordinate, considering the offense that provoked it -- war leadership even worse than during the War of 1812.
Many months ago it became obvious to all but the most ideologically blinkered that America is losing the war launched to deal with a chimeric problem (an arsenal of WMD) and to achieve a delusory goal (a democracy that would inspire emulation, transforming the region)
A surreal facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco’s architects acknowledge it”.
Mega kudos to George Will