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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Maybe he wants to have a better sense of what's happening over there?
[list]The Bush administration routinely has underreported the level of violence in Iraq in order to disguise its policy failings, the Iraq Study Group report said Wednesday.
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On page 94 of its report, the Iraq Study Group found that there had been "significant under-reporting of the violence in Iraq." The reason, the group said, was because the tracking system was designed in a way that minimized the deaths of Iraqis.
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You are assuming that the Bush administration passes on everything they hear about Iraq. The Bush administration has the facts. What you are having issue is the spin they put on such facts when they report to the public. But these clowns are not privy to any information that Bush's commanders are not.
I just read the executive summary. The report doesn't say anything that isn't obvious or been said before.
I watched the new secretary of defense. People were praising him because "he was willing to listen". Listen to whom? Why should the secretary of defense get advice on how to deal with Iraq from Congress? What are these guys privy to that he is not? Why would he listen to some used car salesmen elected from South Dakota, when in his limited time he could listen to someone in the field?
We want a good man for the job that will effectively manage the DOD. That and sucking up to congress are completely non related.
The only mistake I see was not using more troops. That might have made the situation in Iraq better. But what is happening now may have been unavoidable. Since the paper does not recommend more troops it is a useless document.
Iran and Syria aren't going to help with Iraq. Like the Democrats, it is in their interest that the US fail, no matter what the costs. They want the US to get a black eye and no amount of diplomacy is going to change that.
It pretty much said we are doing everything that can be done, except for a few minor things that we need to "try harder" at, in sum we just need to hope things get better.
