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Tom Brosz — (archived)

I, too, would like to see a complete transcript. Knowing how reporters work, I suspect the applause lines may not have been exactly the quotes mentioned in the article. He was the lunch speaker at this seminar.

I would like to propose the radical notion that examining the Iraq war to see what could have been done better is not the same as declaring the campaign an utter failure. Is there anyone out there who has ever completed a project without realizing that a few things could have been done differently? Corollary: Is there anyone out there who has ever completed a project and done everything perfectly without having to revise a few procedures?

The title of the event he spoke at was, "How Do We Overhaul the Nation's Defense to Win the Next War?" Not "How Did We Screw Up Iraq?" Note the questions asked at the panels of the seminar. These are reasonable questions, and not the same thing as condemning the entire effort.

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