Hank Price would have to parrot a long, changing list,

‘The Ever Changing Definition of ‘Mission’ In Iraq’http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/14/changing-mission

The real problem I have with using Saddam as a stop-gap measure to assist Iraq in their war with Iran. Gee, didn’t we do that to stop communism in Iran? Don’t any of the morons running Washington understand communism has about as much chance of invading the Muslim culture as Christianity has of converting Osama bin laden.

Which leads to this war and the “terrorist/ WMD” bs fed us by bush and his cohorts. You’re correct: it wasn’t mainly about WMD, it was also about oil.

. . . and what’s this crap about you thinking it’s not about WMD? Because they found NONE, you now believe something else? And you republicans think Hillary changes her mind.

I have no problem believing there are people out there who don’t like us. I think 9/11 proved that very well. I do, however, do NOT believe that every country that doesn’t like us deserves to be invaded by us, Iraq being one of them.

Afghanistan, yes, and for the reasons we did. But Iraq never invaded us; did not send a suicide squad to attack our country, and was little different from any of the nameless tinpot dictatorships alive and well in the world.

Anyone who studies that lost endeavor can learn it was never a “winneable” war. Read some serious studies of the war and stop parrotting the paid pundits!

This war was “lost” the moment Cheney first told Bush to wage it.

“And much of that blame falls on Rumsfeld, who didn’t deploy enough troops to secure the country and then arrogantly refused to change course.”

The disaster happened pretty much as was predicted, with even many more troops.

‘Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game”Desert Crossing” 1999 Assumed 400,000 Troops and Still a Mess’http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB207/index.htm“Even more significantly, the former CENTCOM commander noted that his plan had called for a force of 400,000 for the invasion — 240,000 more than what Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld approved.”

Posted by: Kansas

But you are the expert in everything – aren’t you? You think you quote Scripture like God himself. maybe God will retire and let you have first dibs at the golden throne??

Posted by: CapnAmerica | July 16, 2007 at 06:21 PM

Math wasn’t your major in college then Capn?

Posted by: Kansas | July 16, 2007 at 06:25 PM

Hey Kansas,a couple of days ago you said you spent 16 years in the Army and fought in Desert Storm.

Looks to me like you’re the one who needs a math lesson.

You might try a course in ethics while you’re at it…you’re certainly “ethics challenged”.

Please elaborate, Hank. I want to hear how effective they are. Afterall, the war is going so well, isn’t it?

Hank Price seems to be calling Bush very stupid, and/or a liar.

‘The Ever Changing Definition of ‘Mission’ In Iraq’http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/14/changing-mission“THE PRE-WAR MISSION WAS TO RID IRAQ OF WMD

Bush: “Our mission is clear in Iraq. Should we have to go in, our mission is very clear: disarmament.” [3/6/03] ” http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030306-8.html

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Posted by: CapnAmerica | July 16, 2007 at 06:21 PM

Math wasn’t your major in college then Capn?

In regards to the world I live in, more then once I have wished it was such a bad dream. Sadly it is not the case, the Bush’s administration maybe this country’s worst nightmare. But it is all too real…

I’m sure if RepubliKansas had been over there, we would have “won.”

It looks more promising now, at least from the news sources I read.

The MSM constant reporting of daily death count is reminiscent of the Vietnam war, where the War war ended up being prosecuted by Press.

I wonder if the MSM would like it if they were rated *only* on their poorly written stories or errors.

I think not.

Are you really so stupid that you have fallen for the WMD reason for going to war? More spin brought to you by the party that can’t believe there are people in the world that don’t like us.

Hank

Also he should know that North Korea has weapon grade reactors, he was on the board of directors of the company that sold it to the North Koreas. And received a notice of intent before the sale as all the board members did. While as G.W. Bush’s SOD he was notorious for not listening to the joint chiefs but ran a blocking move to make sure that the President never received any news of set backs Militarily. Rice, Powell and others had complained numerous times about Rumsfield to the President only to be referred back to Rumsfield as Bush saw it only as children bickering. “You will have to work it out with Don!”.

Though Donald Rumsfield was in total control of the military operations in the invasion and the aftermath.He never would take credit for the failures or bad planning. He preferred to blame those following his orders.

The comparison to McNamara is more apt than Hank realizes. A micro-managing Secretary steamrolls a president into escalating a military conflict that’s more insurgency than traditional war, halfway around the planet. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

At least Johnson was man enough to understand how bad he’d screwed the pooch, and chose not to run for reelection.