>>“Certainly, mistakes were made,” <<
Maybe the "little general" can enlighten us on those mistakes.
And without giving us his buddy "her field marshal crash plane" mccain's analysis.
His REAL point which you missed is that “But that’s a criticism you can make of every conflict.” He was not aiming his fire at the President, but at the biased press which only sees the downside and never the upside. And, yes, mistakes were made (mistake #1 in my book was how Bremer dealt with the former Iraqi army; water under bridge now, but we eliminated the one security force the Iraqis had and created recruits for the insurgency in one fell swoop; not our best idea.) ... but WE ARE WINNING IN IRAQ, and that is something you NEVER SEE printed in lamestream media. They NEVER admit that we are defeating the terrorists, that the elections were successful and democracy is taking root, and that Iraq is become more stable month by month. They only show more deaths, give the terrorist EXACTLY WHAT THE TERRORISTS WANT, the grisly headlines for their disgusting evil attacks, without any context nor condemnation, in effect blaming the blameless (the US military) for the acts of others (terrorists).
I've been dealing with this issue on my blog "Liberating Iraq" for 15 months. Santorum is right. If the media dealt with WWII like they do Iraq, we would never have made it past Normandy.