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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Do me a favor. Go check to find a single war where there weren't fuck ups, and lots of them. Name a war, and if 2 minutes of Google doesn't find a list of bluders perceived in the aftermath, then I shall ..... well I don't know.
I do know there are cave paintings in France calling out Ugh, the chief of the Cro-Mags for screwing up and leaving the fire unattended when he attacked the Neanderthals.
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That's not really the point, hank. One very strong plank in Bush's platform has been the idea that "Kerry will screw up the war." (I think that he said something like "how can Kerry win a war he opposes?" in the debates.) I think that the polls show that this has been an effective line for him.
So, he's opened up the way things have been handled for debate in the election. Bush denies that any mistakes have been made. The fact that we didn't secure this site is clearly a mistake -- and, no Not Me, I don't think that anyone could argue that the failure to secure a site identified by the UN (elBaradi's nuke inspection group) as the locale for shaped munition trigger charges was a patrol-level mistake. The responsibility for this one lies a bit higher up than with Sgt. Smith of Bravo Company.
