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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

So you're telling me if we had a million troops in Iraq and the war was being run by the Pentagon instead of the White House, the situation would be the same.....just because it's an unjustified war?

If we had a million troops in Iraq, we would also have had a strategic objective. We had no objectives as was so obvious four years ago that I posted it repeatedly. Most important in this post is a hyperlink to PBS’s Frontline discussed below.

(No, again there is no ‘horn tooting’. This statement again confronts many Cellar dwellers with an obvious question – why did you not see this coming when posted three and four years ago?)

We did not have enough troops to accomplish anything significant. We operated passively (as Tobias demonstrated in his Iraq experience) or reactively because of decisions by George Jr (Cheney) and by Bremmer. We did no useful reconstruction while enriching Haliburton, et al. We let Iraq deteriorated starting with looting that was predicted and that was intentionally ignored in the White House. We ignored the few troops who knew how to accomplish such objectives (ie commander of the 101st Airborne). Instead we filled the CPA with hack political extremists who had no idea how to accomplish civil reconstruction but could answer questions about abortion and birth control correctly.

Note tenses. We did not have a million men because our leaders had a political agenda rather than work for America. The troops were simply more fodder for a George Jr (Cheney) agenda. "Mission Accomplished" that should have been fought by 'planning for the peace' and by reconstruction, instead, only created an insurgency. There is no way around that reality. The insurgency was created by American incompetence in direct violation of Military Science 101. What is worse? Every Cellar dweller was warned of these consequences three and four years ago.

Same reasons why those troops in The Sniper operate only reactively. Same reason why those troops do not control the terrain. Directly traceable to why we had too few troops in 2003 AND why the insurgency was created by George Jr's agenda. Directly traceable to mental midgets who had solutions defined by Colin Powell but ignored Powell; declared themselves smarter only because they were conservatives.

Defined are people who created a militarily unwinnable fiasco (quagmire) in The Sniper . Defined by that video is what happens when top management - the mental midget administration - do not and did not support the troops.

Anyone who does not understand this should visit Frontline's The Lost Year that begins with 9 April 2003. Those outside America are strongly encouraged to view what so many Americans repeatedly denied. And still deny because so many Americans still believe Rush Limbaugh propaganda. Frontline's The Lost Year demonstrates exactly why FDR and Churchill planned for the peace in 1942 – and therefore why WWII was a victory. This Public Broadcasting System (PBS) news report is damning, in part, because so much of it was being predicted here in the Cellar four years ago. So damning because so many Cellar dwellers had every opportunity to see it coming in 2003 and 2004. This Frontline episode is as important as previous Frontlines that exposed Project for New American Century and a George Jr agenda called 'preemption'.

That NY Times video The Sniper simply makes it obvious how unwinnable "Mission Accomplished" has been. Video demonstrates how little this administration has supported the troops for reasons political.

A November 2006 article in Vanity Fair page 312 entitled Rules of Engagement demonstrate what happens when an American government does not support the troops. Abu Ghraid was but a warning of this administration’s political agenda. Bin Laden runs free because of that same political agenda.

A question asked maybe one hundred times and I still don't have an answer - when are we going after bin Laden? The Sniper implies that answer.