You might want to substitute reasoning for thinking. My dog thinks.
Bush was failing and whistling in the wind the day he set foot in Iraq. Somehow you seem to assume that it's all gone downhill from some glorious beginning when we lost the day we decided to invade. There was no right answer or any strategy that would make an incursion to transform a culture we clearly did not understand succeed.
Robert and I don't always agree on every issue but for some newbie dittohead to insinuate the man can't think is simply laughable.
Man, someone needs to patch the woodwork.
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