For the moment, the collision of the public's clarity of mind, the president's relentless pursuit of defeat and Congress's anxiety has paralyzed us. We may be doomed to two more years of chasing the mirage of democracy in Iraq and possibly widening the war to Iran. But this is not inevitable. A Congress, or a president, prepared to quit the game of "who gets the blame" could begin to alter American strategy in ways that will vastly improve the prospects of a more stable Middle East.
It's a shame that you have to have the credentials that Mr. Oden has (retired Army lieutenant general, head of Army intelligence and director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan, served on the National Security Council staff under Jimmy Carter. A West Point graduate with a PhD from Columbia, Odom teaches at Yale and is a fellow of the Hudson Institute) to be able to speak the truth without being labelled a traitor. Then again it's still early and we'd do ourselves an injustice if we underestimate the shamelessness of Bill Kristol & Co.
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Great article. Bush is on a mission from God or from the military industry. He simply ignores common-sense, history and the reality of the situation.
He does not represent what the U.S. people want. Despite the people who are too uninformed to analyze the war, the vast majority of people said "enough" in the nov. '06 elections. It would be nice to see Congress do more than just non-binding resolutions.
Anyone catching on to this BS about Iran supplying weapons to Iraqi's. Funny, they are supplying weapons to the Shiites but mostly the Shiites who are trying to govern the country. Aren't we supposed to be trying to get THOSE Shiites armed and ready so we can send our boys home. It just gets deeper and deeper . . . Cut and Run mofos
yep, nice try to create reasons for invading and animosity towards Iran. Gen. Gates said he has no actual proof that the Iranian gov't supplied the weapons but Snow/Bush said it was the gov't. I don't think anyone is buying it. more importantly the percent of such weapons is small (about 5%).
Will We get fooled again?? I hope not.
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