This is a mess that never should have happened. The Iraq invasion was planned well enough in advance to have the equipment that our soldiers and marines needed to be ready for their use. It wasn't and still isn't. A plan or plans should have been in place to secure the utilities, water supplies, oil facilities, and to keep the police and army intact until a decision could be made about them. None of this was. The country should have been totally disarmed from the git go, and those with arms prosecuted. But it wasn't. A PFC should not have been the only person prosecuted for torture, but she was. The CIA came out clean as a whistle. Gasoline is still in short supply and many utilities are still not completely on line. All the lies that were told by this administration shouldn't have been. But they were. The Iraqi troops we have trained should be able to defend their own country. But they are not ready. No one knows when tey will be, if ever. Sanctuaries should not be available for insurgents to hit and run from, but they are. There should be some credible plan for an end to any war the USA is involved in. But there isn't. The "War On Terror" is a joke when our borders are wide open. I very well remeber in Oct. 1970 when the 25th Inf. Division was going to pull out, and the mood was ...who will be the last to die for this worthless war. I feel for the troops on the ground, on the sea, and in the air over there. But as someone on here said, they volunteered knowing full well that the politicians are usually the very cynically worst at military strategy from Johnson to Nixon to Clinton and now to Bush, because they don't have their sons and daughters in it. Millions of lives have been changed forever because these "elected officials" would not make the decisions that should have been made. I have no answers....
Larry
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