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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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Is there any one of them willing to take some of the blame?
posted by
Clyde
10:17 AM
U.S. Was 'Clueless' on Counterinsurgency
Paul Wolfowitz, in his first public remarks on the Iraq war in years, said the American government was "pretty much clueless on counterinsurgency" in the first year of the war.
The former deputy secretary of defense said yesterday that the force sent to Iraq was adequate for fighting Saddam Hussein's military, citing the speed with which American troops toppled the regime. But Mr. Wolfowitz said no one in the Bush administration anticipated that Saddam would order his security services to wage an insurgency after their formal defeat on the battlefield.
Mr. Wolfowitz's remarks came at a forum for a new book, "War and Decision," by the former no. 3 official at the Pentagon, Douglas Feith. In the book, Mr. Feith argues that America's greatest mistake in the war was establishing a coalition provisional authority instead of installing a group of Iraqi exiles in an interim government until elections could be held.
Mr. Wolfowitz said he agreed with his old colleague. But his remarks yesterday have special relevance, because in the run-up to the war, the deputy secretary of defense downplayed testimony from a retired Army chief of staff, General Eric Shinseki, who told Congress that postwar stabilization operations would require several hundred thousand troops.
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No one anticipated the counterinsurgency? Sort of like no one anticipated the levees would break?
They were warned several times, by several different people, that this would happen. They can't hide behind "we didn't know" forever. They are NOT that incompetent.
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"Post insurgency?" Do you mean the people whose lives and contry we have demolished deciding to fight against the invaders that are killing them and their families daily? Sadam didn't have a damned thing to do with that, America did that all by bush and co.'s selves.
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