Bill Maher's Analogy
I think this is priceless. Maher wrote a small piece for the Huffington Post, about his take on Rumsfeld. In Rumsfeld More Stubborn Than Bush, Maher chides Rummy for taking over three years to realize that maybe the U.S. doesn't have enough troops in Iraq. Just maybe........... The morgue in Baghdad counted more than 1,800 bodies last month, which was a record high. Or a normal month in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. But this month, the morgue is on track to receive less than a quarter of that. Why? Because we've redeployed 8,000 U.S. soldiers and 3,000 Iraqi troops to Baghdad and sent them on house-to-house sweeps for militants and weapons caches. In other words, we've knocked Baghdad back from complete and total madness to borderline chaos.
Geez, it's almost like more soldiers works better. And it only took three years to figure this out.
Of course, the forces weren't added; they were moved from other parts of the country, which will now descend back into complete and total madness. Whack-a-mole, as they say.
posted by Dusty Dog at
8/30/2006
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Rumsfeld has always said the commanders in Iraq have all the troops they say they need. What he doesn't say is that they only say that because he makes them say that. Of course in order to rebuild Iraq, or just to keep it from getting worse, they would need more.
I remember in Vietnam commanders such as Westmoreland afterwards said they always wanted more troops and resources, but it wasn't politicaly possible to ask for more and they thought they could "win" with what they were given. Some conservatives said they betrayed their troops that way, and they may have a point. The war was wrong, but even if we chose to fight it I think the Vietnam War couldn't have been won militarily by the US at any price we would pay without a political deal we would not make.
But what is even worse about the generals in Iraq is that the military has always thought they needed roughly twice as many troops as they were given. If they cared about their troops and the country they should have said that and resigned.
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Anonymous, at
8:54 PM
Resigned, and fade off into historic oblivion........ at the very least.
By
Dusty Dog, at
9:17 PM
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