Bush asked for a new Iraq plan because the old one required 400,000 troops

talked about the importance of exit strategies.

...and domestic speculation.

Number 1: I'm not sure he could pronounce it.

Number 2: I'm not sure he could fathom what those words mean.

Number 3: That choice of words is way too sophisticated. Even if he understands their meaning. He doesn't talk like that.

I never thought I'd hear myself say this but is it just me or is that statement a really blatant dig at bush in a normal media source. I would never cry "bias" especially if its on my side, but thats pretty harsh for a journalistic piece rather than an opinion one.

Look in the top left corner of the page. "Op/Ed"

Thanks. I was going to say.

Plan after plan was leaked to the press, to the point that Rumnmy had to threaten military personnel with court martials... (This tells me the leaks were so general that if he did Court Martial them, he would have run out of Senior Miltiary Planners, those not Court Martialed would have begged for transfers or early retirements... and the Press would have had to pay attention as this would have looked like a PURGE, a la 1930s Soveit Union.)

then we STILL got some people retiring from the Military, I mean SENIOR peoople, and we got a plan that even General Erik Chinseki (Forced to step down as Army Chief of Staff, six months before the end of his tour) warned Congress it was not sufficient.

So the Army TRIED to warn us, and some of us KNEW we were going to war just from looking at this... but alas the US Press was asleep at the wheel (on purpose most likely) and most people do NOT pay that close attention to DoD.

When history looks back at this terrible state of affairs we will be judged harshly, and the military did all it could.. withhin the law, to warn the American people. They do have an UCMJ to contend with and Bush is still the CiC.

The press didn't seem to be doing its job. Finally, journalists are beginning to ask questions Americans want and need to find out about.

That they did not listen to him is akin to Hitler, etc, who thought they knew more than their Professional Warriors.
A recipe for disaster as we see unfold today.

Surrounds himself with Talent? Does he listen though? Pity as America pays dearly for this WHAT NOW? Prez and his lolo decisions.

Come, beer thirty: time for a drink.

right after the remark about not launching new products in August. The word was out there and there was no doubt about what the WH was going to do. It really irritated me when the common comment was that people did not begin to speak out until January or February.

I'd puke my guts out if I saw my name in the same sentence as GWB. Yogi deserves more than that kind of comparison.

LOL!

But I'll wager that it wasn't Dubya who rejected the 400K-troops idea -- that it was Rummy.

Interesting to see what a competent Pentagon had detetmined would be necessary to 'do it right,' and how far off Rummy was in how he did it.