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Originally posted by Not Bob
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.
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What I heard him say is "how can he ask our soldiers to die, and our allies to help, in the wrong war at the wrong time." As to how to prosecute the war, I believe the President has been consistant that he defers that to the generals.
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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.
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Again, what I heard was that certainly there have been things that he would do differently now, but that the big decision "do we go into Iraq" he does not see as a mistake. I do recognize the spin from your side on this point was different, and was that everything he ever decided was just a-ok.
And I would hope that it was not up to a political appointee to decide to secure an ammo dump. Do you really think that is for Bush to tell the Generals? War is crazy- mistakes happen. Eisenhower screwed up before the Battle of the Bulge. He was still found an adequate President.
