His once and future boss, Hillary Clinton, does not allow her minions to tell the truth if it might portray the U.S. in a favourable light. Wes is nothing more than a bookmark these days, waiting for his appointment to Secretary of Neutering for the American military. By POTUS Geena Davis...
What would have made the U.S. look good is if the House Armed Services Committee had listened to Clark pre-war testimony in 2002 advising not to rush into this war.
http://securingamerica.com/articles/washingtonpost/2005-04-07
If opinions from General Shinseki, Zinni and a plan on how to conduct an invasion of Iraq and it's after math that had been around since some time after Gulf War I had been followed we may have looked good.
Calls from senior military and the Army War College that invading Iraq would not be a "cake-walk" and that we would need several hundred thousand troops to do the job went unheeded. The guy in charge claimed we would be greeted with roses and the job could be dome with 75k troops.
Guy's like Clark argued taking Bagdhad and removing Hussein would be the easy part and that restoring order in the cities, securing the borders an reconstituting as many non hardcore Sunni military as possible to give them a stake in the new country instead of becoming insurgents had to be down immediatley. He said that it would be too late a year or two after.
You don't have to did too deep to see that this war was a pipedream of a few civilian neocons that promised we would be greeted as liberators and that this action would sweep democracy across the entire mideast. This was not the prevailing military opinon. This was not the opinion from numerous think tanks like that Cato Institute would had position papers on the likelyhood of democracy succeeding in Iraq. Through it some rabid supporter from the media labelling anyone who diagreed with the plan as an America hater or evil-doer and it give you this mess.
Had we listened to the expert military opinions and secured the borders and cities from the start, we might have looked good. If we had secured the cities to prevent looting and chaos after Hussein fell as these experts suggest, we may have looked good. Instead we go witty quotes like "free people can do what ever they want".
As thousand of our troops had their appendages blown off or recieved serious head wounds we got more witicisms like "sometimes you go to war with the army you have, not the one you want"
If we had conducting this war the way the experts wanted to we maynot have had to put our troops in aposition where they were fighting in the streets going door to door in a nightmare of a political war.