[richlevy]

Originally Posted by tw

Unfortunately those who advocate the status quo will not commit to troop numbers and years. Status quo is a no win strategy. Few are even willing (yet) to publically admit to what these former National Security Advisors are saying.

Of course not. Anyone here who does programming knows the kind of specifications that went into Iraq. "I know what everyone has been saying, but I'm sure we can do it in half the estimated time, with half the estimated resources. I doubt that anyone will have to put in any overtime, either. If you do, you must have done something wrong and we didn't budget for the overtime because there shouldn't be any so don't ask."

If Iraq had been a programming project, 3/4 of the staff would have had their resumes out. Unfortunately, it's not a programming project, the staff are getting killed, and they're finding that once they signed on they can't get out, even if their contract expires.

History will not be kind to GWB, and even the best efforts of the next guy in line will not keep us from finding out what really went on, unless they intend to intern the entire white house staff on an island like in The Prisoner .

Plot Summary for
"The Prisoner" (1967)
A man who drives a 60's lotus sports car around London, resigns from a Top secret job. We next see him packing for a holiday at home, and a credit appears ... "The Prisoner". He is gassed, falls asleep and then wakes up in "The Village". Everyone in "The Village" is a number, and is there for security reasons (people to dangerous and who hold too much information to just let go). The series spends all it's time trying to get the "information" out of No.6 about why he resigned. Plus it spends quite a while chasing him with a weather balloon :-) A strange cult UK TV series.

You know, this just might explain why Colin Powell never resigned after he figured out that GWB would never take his advice.