Thursday, September 16, 2004
1027 Dead
1027 dead and counting.
Sidney Blumenthal wrote a piece today that underscores why some senior US military officers now believe "the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale." An excerpt:
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Sidney Blumenthal wrote a piece today that underscores why some senior US military officers now believe "the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale." An excerpt:
'Bring them on!" President Bush challenged the early Iraqi insurgency in July of last year. Since then, 812 American soldiers have been killed and 6,290 wounded, according to the Pentagon. Almost every day, in campaign speeches, Bush speaks with bravado about how he is "winning" in Iraq. "Our strategy is succeeding," he boasted to the National Guard convention on Tuesday.
But, according to the US military's leading strategists and prominent retired generals, Bush's war is already lost. Retired general William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency, told me: "Bush hasn't found the WMD. Al-Qaida, it's worse, he's lost on that front. That he's going to achieve a democracy there? That goal is lost, too. It's lost." He adds: "Right now, the course we're on, we're achieving Bin Laden's ends." - Far graver than Vietnam
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