Pentagon lying its way out of an unwinnable war - again
by Col. David Hackworth
Nashua [NH] Telegraph
02/22/05
As with Vietnam, the Iraqi tar pit was oh-so-easy to sink into, but appears to be just as tough to exit. This should be no big surprise! Most slugfests -- from bar brawls to military misadventures like Vietnam and Iraq -- take some clever moves to step away from once the swinging starts. This is why most combat vets pick their fights carefully. They look at their scars, remember the madness and are always mindful of the fallout. That's not the case in Washington, where the White House and the Pentagon are run by civilians who have never sweated it out on a battlefield. ... Now the increasingly flummoxed Bush team is stealing the page on Vietnamization from Nixon's Exit Primer, coupled with the same deceitful tactics he used to get us out of the almost decade-long Vietnam quagmire:
telling lies...
http://tinyurl.com/3wxo8
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Nashua [NH] Telegraph
02/22/05
As with Vietnam, the Iraqi tar pit was oh-so-easy to sink into, but appears to be just as tough to exit. This should be no big surprise! Most slugfests -- from bar brawls to military misadventures like Vietnam and Iraq -- take some clever moves to step away from once the swinging starts. This is why most combat vets pick their fights carefully. They look at their scars, remember the madness and are always mindful of the fallout. That's not the case in Washington, where the White House and the Pentagon are run by civilians who have never sweated it out on a battlefield. ... Now the increasingly flummoxed Bush team is stealing the page on Vietnamization from Nixon's Exit Primer, coupled with the same deceitful tactics he used to get us out of the almost decade-long Vietnam quagmire:
telling lies...
http://tinyurl.com/3wxo8
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 23. Feb, 15:27
