On the other hand, he said, publicly revealing those internal deliberations would be a mistake.
``Actually, the things we've sat around and talked about before have been wrong on every count,'' he said with a chuckle. ``So that's probably another reason why I don't want to'' discuss it. Although he did not mention it, U.S. officials had assumed when Baghdad fell to U.S. forces last April that tens of thousands of troops could be withdrawn within a few months.
And then this:
Though a lifelong conservative, Kwiatkowski found herself appalled as the radical wing of the Bush administration, including her superiors in the Pentagon planning department, bulldozed internal dissent, overlooked its own intelligence and relentlessly pushed for confrontation with Iraq.
I think even the True Believers will start shifting their views.
Arf
Chairman of the JCS: "We've been wrong on every count"
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- Chairman of the JCS: "We've been wrong on every count"
- So was occupying Germany or Japan a failure?
- Of Japan, Germany and the United States, who struck the first blows in WWII?
- National security involves WAR. War is not nice. Anything that is not nice is rejected by the left.
- So was occupying Germany or Japan a failure?