| really, it's been a combination (a competition at times) of bush getting bad advice AND bush making bad decisions. some people seem to think that if we turn fallujah into a big blood bath, that that'll make us successful in our mission..
but, what is the mission? a liberated, free and democratic iraq right? reckless destruction and killing is something that happened under iraq's previous regime. sure, we haven't used chemical weapons, but we've definitely killed tens of thousands of iraqis..
saddam emptied his prisons and gave anyone who wanted a weapon a weapon.. we took the cities without much of a fight.. this was saddam's gift to us - a quagmire.. all he needed was a catalyst in the form of a war hungry president and cabinet. all of this isn't very surprising.. MAYBE, just maybe, if they even bothered to plan for the post-war situation we could've averted some of this.. i doubt it, but when you don't even bother to plan, you end up stuck playing defense. |