Posted on 11/19/2006 8:34:17 AM PST by TheTruthAintPretty
The weekend after the statue of Saddam Hussein fell, Kenneth Adelman and a couple of other promoters of the Iraq war gathered at Vice President Cheney's residence to celebrate. The invasion had been the "cakewalk" Adelman predicted. Cheney and his guests raised their glasses, toasting President Bush and victory. "It was a euphoric moment," Adelman recalled.
Forty-three months later, the cakewalk looks more like a death march, and Adelman has broken with the Bush team. He had an angry falling-out with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld this fall. He and Cheney are no longer on speaking terms. And he believes that "the president is ultimately responsible" for what Adelman now calls "the debacle that was Iraq."
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Nope, found it... From "Civilwarhome.com"
Lesser battles are famous for their casualties. At Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864, General Hood's Confederates lost over 6,000 of 21,000 effectives -most of them in about two hours. Six Confederate generals died there.
Mark
I agree with you on the main reason.
Our military's hands are tied up by the what-are-people-going-to-say fear.
Our military was and is not allowed to conduct the war against the insurgency and their Iranian allies the way they are capable of.
While I'm not thrilled with the current chaos is Iraq, we have ousted Hussein. That means Iraq is not sponsoring international terrorism or building wmds. That by itself is a huge success. The day we dragged Hussein out of that spider hole is the day we greatly reduced the chances of a wmd going off in an American city.
I think you should be carefully listened to!! I think you might be a prophet. :-) Prophets are rarely welcome at first. Later, when proved right........it's amazing the reaction.
Nancee
AMEN!!!
Amen, brother.
I mean some of what Saddam did to control the violent factions for decades. if you care to read my URL in which I explained some of the Iraqi history and violence, you may not find a need to be sarcastic.
I answered the Afghanistan question in a previous post. Are you gonna ask me about the Congo Brazzaville next? :-)
Instead of drive-by-posting, maybe you should try to guide us with a novel solution of your own.
Have a great evening, sir.
In the end, the President's greatest failing was surrounding himself with snakes like this.
I agree with you. Unfortunately, the moment Rumsfeld was sacrificed, Bush legitimized all of this nonsense.
For the record, after three years, we've lost fewer troops than the armchair generals predicted we'd lose taking Baghdad. They were wrong then, they're wrong now.
Sellouts. Gutless, opportunistic, seditious sellouts. The whole damn lot of them.
More from the "See EVERYBODY thinks it's a failure and hates the President" media.
According to their history, it's the only way to win. I outlined that already in the URL that you're feeling indignant to read! LOL Nope, not trying to force ya!
..........I don't really need to read your URL to know the history of the players in the middle east
This doesn't mean you didn't read it! You may not WANT to admit it but..... Psychology says:....never mind! LOL
or to understand that we can't afford to lose, or that we can't leave yet without losing. My novel solution is for us to take Syria out of the picture and bring about regime change in Iran by any means in either place.
To be efficient, you take Iran out first, Air power for a few days of military bases and nuke sites bombing. Syria will fold, no doubt about it!
We couldn't bring regime change in Iraq for a decade. We had to invade. We CAN'T invade the-much-larger Iran and we don't want to. Crippling the Iranian mullahs will most likely change the regime or at least take them out of the Iraq game, capeesh? (Phonetic!)
I haven't seen you around here much, melancholy. Maybe it's just that I have overlooked your posts.
It's difficult to keep up with FR posts when one is really busy. I didn't post that much. I'm sure my posts weren't that interesting or important. However, the record is there but don't stumble on that URL! Sounds like Niagara Falls in the famous Abbot & Costello skit! Do not say "URL"!!! LOL
Nice talking to you Michael, all in good humor though!
Have an extended wonderful evening, sir.
I agree completely.
Congrats on the house and good luck, FRiend.
Bye for now.
You know, We could use 140,000 guys and all that heavy equipment in CA for about a week. Start in L.A. and head south down the I-5 and the coastal roads toward Mexico. Women will be throwing flowers to the guys on the tanks the same way they tossed them to my dad in Sicily over 60 years ago.
What you're missing is that the main enemy is Iran. Iraq was a target of convenience. But Iran has managed to tie us down there while they develop their nuke. When that happens, and I see nothing stopping it now, Bush will go down in history as a worse president than Jimmy Carter.
Anyone who uses the words "war" and "cakewalk" in the same sentence is not operating in the realm of reality.
The Russians killed over 1 million Afghani's and all it ended up doing was turning every one in the country against them. The same would happen in Iraq. Your strategy is one of proven failure.
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