| big deal that rice came out and admitted to failures - is this something we didn't already know?? no, it sure as hell isn't.. the only "newsworthy" thing about it is that the administration is actually admitting that mistakes were made - rather than their usual line of blaming everyone and their grandmother for their own mistakes..
i distinctly remember the question posed to bush during the last presidential campaign where some woman asked him if he made any mistakes... good ol' bush almighty proudly said no, that he didn't make any mistakes..
and this bit about the tactics being wrong, but the strategy being right... way too early to say anything about the strategy.. the tactics were certainly wrong and deceptive, from the run up to the war to the occupation "plans".. the strategy will be decided by whether/not iraq can actually hold itself together, rather than splinter apart and descend into a civil war.. and if that doesn't happen, how about seeing iraq become a theocratic paradise, closely aligned with iran? (maybe one day they'll get some free nukes for their friendship.) i wonder if aunt rice will call that a victory. history already shows that the pubic/world were horribly mislead on WMD bullshit, and that the administration failed many times to secure iraq after the invasion.. and we'll get nice little examples of their stupidity like bush's "bring 'em on" garbage and his "mission accomplished" stunts on aircraft carriers.
bush is a lame duck, that's all that rice's comments prove. and now, supposedly, the policies at play are working - the only problem is that for most observers, it's too little, too late. what she's trying to do now is appeal to the lowest common denominators within our country - dead end bush supporters - to retain the last vestiges of support that bush still has.. |