“Absolute nonsense. “
Yeah, there’s no way the war critics would politicize casualties.
“Franks is well known as a tactician, not a strategist.”
Well, what would a four star general know about strategy, especially compared to someone who runs around on the internet complaining about ‘bushbots’ and ‘neocons’.
“until we ran out of plan and started relying on knee jerk reaction”
Yeah, the bombs that landed on Zarqari’s safe house were purely coincidental.
Well I am a strong supporter of an effective and strong anti-terror policy and have become a violent critic of the current administration and its senseless expenditure of blood (some) and enormous quantities of treasure in entirely frivolous ways. I am not politicizing casualties. I am arguing about the heartless souless putting lives at risk without due concern for ensuring that all blood expended is for valid well defined strategic goals (planned down to the squad level in each deliberate skirmish, as is the grave responsibility of military commanders).
Putting a bomb on Zarqawi's house is a tactic. It is not a strategic goal. We keep getting back to the fact that we went in without clearly articulated strategic goals, didn't even make them up as we went along, and the defenders of this policy, such as you, don't even know what a [-n achievable] strategic goal would look like