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Originally Posted by Kitsune
... we just don't understand why we can't fix these complex problems with air superiority and installation of a new political system. We want this, badly, to be good versus evil, not shades of gray.
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But we did know how to fix these things. How many Generals were 'retired' because they accurately defined how to fix it? They were opposing a political agenda. Therefore they were retired.
Ask yourself why Rumsfeld had to reach down to a one star general - total experience was command of one division - to find a commander for all forces in Iraq? Sanchez was all he could find? Or other generals knew what the real problem was?
Remember who every general serving in Iraq and now retired have blamed for the entire Iraq mess. This includes the legendary Barry McCafferty who is on the White House 'person non-grata' list for telling the truth.
It was not inevitable. Solutions were known. Even the intelligence was not faulty. Every country adjacent to Iraq, who had spies in Iraq, and who would be most threatened by Iraq, instead, saw no threat. Just another damning fact back in 2002. Why did we ignore that reality?
The Iraq Study Group has a comprehensive set of objectives and benchmarks - the only reasonable solution we have in Iraq. Already, many of those benchmarks should have been achieved. The problem requires solutions that aggressive. Instead the mental midget wants to study this problem for many more months. Why? The solution will either work or fail by end of 2007. Instead, the mental midget needs this thing to continue well after 2008. Deja vue Richard Nixon.
Solution from the Iraq Study Group is a threat to the legacy of George Jr. Don't think for one minute otherwise. This man - just like Nixon - is so corrupt as to send more (and too few) troops only so that a defeat does not occur under his watch.