Cheney speaks Prophetically on Iraq

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by yesman065

I thought that Phase one was to let the military fight the war - not politicians. Didn't we learn that from Vietnam?

The politicians should define the purpose of the war, and the military should determine the methodology, getting approval from the President for anything out of the ordinary. But without a purpose, methodology is useless for anything but "stay the course", with the course a holding pattern.