You’re putting the absolute best face that can be put on this pig.
You affiliated with the RNC? [smile] The goal a year ago was to defeat Iraqi/foreign insurgent resistance prior to rebuilding. We quit. Election’s coming up. Killing 100s or 1000s of Iraqis now will upset the country for several more months. Might require more troops.
Good Morning Vietnam. This is Bush’s “read my lips”, military commanders decide how to fight. BS!
He lost confidence in victory and compromised. Just like with his China appology, tax cuts, education reform, farm aid and steel tariffs. But what the hell do I know. I thought the Senate failure to prosecute Clinton after impeachment would lose us that election. Bush managed to squeak it out nevertheless. I’ll still vote for him. Anything else would be suicide.
”As Falluja goes, so goes central Iraq, as central Iraq goes, so goes the nation, " - Colonel John Coleman, chief of staff of 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (before the cease fire)”
Our strategic error in winning the peace was to leave units like the 82nd Airborne all over Iraq to do a job they are not trained or equipped to do. We let Falluja/Al-Anbar province collect and distribute arms until the 1st MarDiv could rebuild and come back as 1MEF to do the heavy lifting. The 82nd Airborne brass decided to go to garrison and minimize casualties, so things got out of hand. The only certainty of war is confusion.