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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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Ok, we fucked up and everyone fucks up. I will grant you that point to add to your win column.
But, back in those heady days of 2003, everyone still bought the WMD thing, and the IAEA says, Hey look here, this is where we KNOW there are some serious weapons that can fuck shit up. And we checked, and lo and behold! there are nearly 400 TONS of explosives. We were so desperate to find WMDs and show how justified we were in invading that putting that bunker out of business should have been, at the most cynical and not even thinking about the military tactics, a nice little PR prize to show us all how very bad of a man Sadaam Hussain was. Hell, I dunno about you, but that little stat on how one pound of the stuff was used to blow up the Pan Am flight was very effective at scaring the shit out of me. Yeah, this wasn't necessarily a cache of WMDs, sure, but surely they qualify as MWoDs, don't they? I'll grant, at this late date, that the Bagdad Museum shouldn't have been as top of a priority in those early days, but can't we all agree that 380 tons of explosives should have gotten a little tighter of a lock?
