“History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.”
Answer to come later. Trust me...it's good.
UPDATE: Guess the cat's out of the bag (what does that mean, by the way?)
Former presser Scott McClellan. This ought to rile up the wing nuts, as an insider finally names names.— Some Boca Dude- They're already circling the wagons, proclaiming McClellan is some self-serving lib. Anybody notice how all the ex-bush insiders writing books never say that bush was right all along? That they all are playing pass the buck. Not one person has taken responsibility for anything, including bush. Truman said "the buck stops here." bushco says the buck stops anywhere but here.— mike l
- Turbo from American Gladiators?— Leron
Comment removed.- Funny, no one took Scott M seriously beforehand, now he is the second coming. Now, if you would excuse me, I have some Jews at Auschwitz I have to free.— jeffreyg61
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- I refuse to buy any of these books which are all attempts to justify the unjustifiable and defend the indefensible. The war in Iraq was not a "blunder" or a "mistake." It was a deliberate act of naked aggression to establish a base for controlling a region that is essential for the exploitation and sale of oil. There were indeed mistakes made in the execution of the war, but the plan was there for years. McClellan, like others before him are just trying to take themselves off the hook by putting others on. Won't work. They are all scum.— Magistra
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- Bush has NEVER taken responsibility for the decision to go into Iraq. After spewing a variety of "reasons" why we went into Iraq, he's consistently claimed he decided because of the "intelligence that EVERYONE had". He's a disgrace...— yobill626
- Magi (as if) we already HAD bases all over the Arabian peninsula. It's the hysterical people like you that embolden the advocates of the war, because baloney like that discredits the legitimate case against the war. If a bunch of execs dream up such a plan, they can't launch the operation all by themselves. They may want to capitalize on the President's folly, Lord knows it wouldn't be hard work. But to push a nation to war takes so much more than just the "wicked" oil companies. What you hve to savor for now is the likes of batboy and XJ flailing because they have nothing to stand on. All they can do is make up stuff about anybody they don't like and scream that everybody else just hates them and America. They don't know that we won't exit Iraq on our terms. Eventually the Iranians will get Maliki or whoever they have running the country to ask us to leave. What are we going to do then, execute another regime change and start all over? If we want to leave Iraq on our terms, we had better start planning soon. When John McCain says that we will never surrender in Iraq, he doesn't know what he is talking about. The most profound lesson from Vietnam was that we would never commit our forces overseas without an achievable and specific mission, but there is no mission in Iraq that can be achieved with our armed forces. All they can do now is buy time that the President, and wannabe President McCain, will waste. That's the lives of our soldiers that they are wasting, building a proxy Iranian government that will kick us out when they are done with us, and what will these guys do then? They want to talk about the debt we owe the soldiers who have perished, but we also owe a lot to those that are alive. But crying bout a war for oil is just so Michael Moore.— SteveMG
Answer to come later. Trust me...it's good..........SCOTT McCLELLAN. This is "really good" Will?— ocjones- Hmmm. Let me see, the evil Karl Rove (a special assistant to the President) meets with Scooter Libby (Chief of Staff to the VP). McClellan doesn't know what's discussed but suspects the worst. Yep, sounds suspicious to me.— ocjones
Can somebody point out anything Scottie's written in his new book that we weren't saying four years ago?- Hospitals will be packed today as they treat all the shoulder strains from people patting themselves on the back, saying "see, I was right". The tin foil hat brigade will wallow in this for days. Nobody believed him then, why would anyone believe him now? This ain't news.— jimmymack
Scott already knows the result of Bush's "failed" policies and strategic "blunders": No Islamic terror attacks on American soil since 9/11/01. I'm sure he neglected to put that in his important historical memoir.— jmc
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