Throwing Georgie under the Bus

[TheMercenary]

A good retroactive view of most actions are a great way to hammer the process. To bad most of the time we don't have that view when the decisions are actually being made. Hindsight is a real boone to historians.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Nothing excuses the leadership and tactical failures along the way. But not telling us the "real deal" is not one of those failures... actually *stating* any one of those goals would make accomplishing it impossible.

The last time I said that, all you could do was mock me for it.

I know that laying all our cards on the table would be shooting ourselves in the foot.

I also know what our enemies know; that the way to win a war against America is to bog us down in a quagmire until we lose political support. We couldn't have done a better job of that. We lost (or never got) support for the war by not providing a GOOD REASON for being there. It didn't have to be the comprehensive, actual reason; but at least a GOOD-SOUNDING REASON. Fail.