The Iraq War retrospective Thread

[Occhidiangela]

Hi,
Same old song we sang 43 years ago. The more thins change . . . ;)

--Pete

Yep. What is criminal is that so much useful critique of that four decades old war was available, and in so many cases ignored.

Big irony: Colonel H.R McMaster, who wrote Derelection of Duty, an excellent analysis of the political military policy level of mistakes, was a poster boy for the administration, for a while, in the media coverage. He was one of the few senior leaders in Iraq who, with the 3rd ACR, got it mostly right in the execution phase that the suits, none of whom ever read his book, obviously, were trying to screw up.

There he was, actually unscrewing the turd they had laid. There they stood, applauding, all the while not realizing they still needed to wipe their arses before pulling up their trousers.

I'll stop, it just makes me mad.

Occhi