Rules of Engagement

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Originally Posted by CaliforniaMama

But, hey, I'm not an expert, just a listener and I live in a die hard liberal area, so it's hard to hear anything that is not propaganda.

You live in a region where people more often ask embarrassing questions. Demanding embarrassing answers such as 'reasons why' is too often confused with liberalism.

Your response states one fact - woefully obvious. You completely ignored that Frontline report The Lost Year . However having learned from history (2003 to 2004), then show me where popular pressure ever once influenced incompetent decision after politically inspired decision? Show me one fact that explains why Powell's doctrine was even considered by those without basic military knowledge and with too much power? Show me one example of public pressure causing violations of basic military doctrine?

Embarrassing is:

it is the pressure of the people that has forced the Administration to react in this way

since that is what Rush Limbaugh on oxycotton would say to deflect blame. Wild and speculative claims without a single supporting fact. Classic Limbaugh propaganda complete with statements obvious in contradiction to history and classic of a political agenda.

Embarrassing: a mental midget president made mistakes only because the public pressured him to make those mistakes? Embarrassing: not one example of that pressure. But plenty of Limbaugh half truth spin. Where is the part where god told him to make those mistakes?

Meanwhile history - why troops are forced to fight an unwinnable war - is reviewed in Frontline:The Lost Year . Embarrassing: you so hate American troops as to not even review history in that Frontline report.