former head of the National Security Agency says Bush is losing it in Iraq.

[taranaki]

The "war is lost"
Military experts say they see no exit from the Iraq debacle -- and that the war is helping al-Qaida.

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By Sidney Blumenthal



Sept. 16, 2004 | "Bring them on!" President Bush challenged the early Iraqi insurgency in July of last year. Since then 812 American soldiers have been killed and 6,290 wounded, according to the Pentagon. Almost every day in campaign speeches, Bush speaks with bravado about how we are "winning" in Iraq. "Our strategy is succeeding," he boasted to the National Guard convention on Tuesday.

But according to the U.S. military's leading strategists and prominent retired generals, Bush's war is already lost.

Retired Gen. William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency, told me: "Bush hasn't found the WMD. Al-Qaida, it's worse -- he's lost on that front. That he's going to achieve a democracy there? That goal is lost, too. It's lost." He added: "Right now, the course we're on, we're achieving [Osama] bin Laden's ends."


http://salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/.../index_np.html

[thegladhatter]

Salon....now THERE'S a nice unbiased news outlet.

[lazysmurff]

hows this one then?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,38...103550,00.html

[taranaki]

Originally Posted by thegladhatter

Salon....now THERE'S a nice unbiased news outlet.

And a former head of National Security doesn't know what he's talking about?

If you are not smart enough to debate the information,have a crack at the source.

Gladhatter,adding nothing as usual.

[werwolf-23]

Originally Posted by taranaki

The "war is lost"
Military experts say they see no exit from the Iraq debacle -- and that the war is helping al-Qaida.

Wait, you mean invading a Muslim country that had nothing to do with 9/11, while Osama bin Laden, the guy we're supposed to be going after, walks around a free man (unless he gets miraculously WINK WINK captured just in time for Election Day), was a bad idea?

I mean, next you'll be telling me that to the average Arab, that would look NOT like the USA wants only to bring to justice those who attacked it, but is in fact starting up a holy war with Islam, just like Osama had been telling them all along.