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He has jumped off the reservation lately. He was one of the people questioning our tactics and saying how we had blown it when we were waiting to get re-supplied just prior to going into Baghdad. Lately, I think he just likes to be contrary so he'll get TV time but some of his comments were pretty much out there.

Some of his recent comments:

While Saddam was watching videotapes of “Apocalypse Now” and “Black Hawk Down” and taking notes, Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard Myers – badly misjudging Iraq's determination – chose to refight Desert Storm.

The Dream Team made three classic mistakes:
* Not understanding the enemy or the nature of the war.
* Thinking smart bombs would do the job.
* Underestimating the patriotism of the average Saddam-hating Iraqi and how fiercely he'd fight for his country.

...George W. Bush needs to immediately reassess his war plan, bring in more combat troops, heed the advice of his fighting generals on the ground rather than his team of mainly chicken-hawk advisers and immediately readjust his tactics. He needs to get real and apply the lessons learned from the Russians in Chechnya and the Israelis in Lebanon – and to understand what went wrong in Vietnam.

Hopefully then, he won't make the mistake of another Texas president who didn't sack his SecDef and Joint Chiefs chairman straight away for their screw-ups – an error so egregious it cost our country almost 60,000 American lives and LBJ his presidency.