And Rumsfeld ignored the advice of his military commanders that more troops would be needed to secure the country. All true.
Now there is a strategy in place to secure the country, and it is working: 1. The Sunni insurgency is over, as the Sunnis have decided to join the government rather than fight it. 2. Al Qaeda in Iraq is very nearly finished off and the Iraqi Army is leading the charge to provide the coup de grace. 3. The Shiite militias have been reigned in by the Iraqi government. 4. Oil is flowing, providing badly needed revenue for the Iraqi government. 5. Violence is down tremendously. In all of this news, the biggest of all is that Iraqis have, by and large, decided that they would rather live together in peace that fight to the death with each other. As I noted a few years ago, that was the turning point. On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Gruss wrote: > > > Bush didn't set the mission, Rummy didn't know what was going on, and > both of them put a guy in place who didn't have the experience to > execute any mission much less an ill defined one and there was no > process for decision making. > > Bush is ultimately accountable. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:263433 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
