> Dre wrote: > I agree with all your points but I still think that if they had done > everything you mention, it would still be a lost cause. >
Which is why we shouldn't have invaded in the first place. Isolate, bomb, but don't invade. Bush's father was smart enough to know that. The failure of this administration was making decisions based on faith rather than facts. The talking point <whine> "but everybody thought ...."</whine> is total crap. You don't invade a country because you think maybe, possibly, might be. The concept of invading Iraq was based on 3 delusional concepts: (1.) Lock down the country? Don't worry! The US military is so strong that they can do anything; Even things we've not trained them to do like nation-building and controlling 1000s of square miles of border with 1 soldier. (2.) Build infrastructure? Don't worry! We'll be rolling in oil money and Halliburton will be more than glad to build everything for a piece of it. (3.) Create a democracy? Don't worry! Everybody rally around the US and will love their new freedom. They'll all sit in peace circles while they vote. It's a classic failure of analysis. It's business 101: gather data, analyze data, make decisions based on facts. That didn't happen here. Instead it went like this: get intoxicated with a fantasy, gather/skew/make up data to support it, tell all your buddies how faithful you are and call it leadership no matter the data to the contrary. What you're seeing here is ENRON Redux: a fantasy, wrapped in bullshit, surrounded by sycophants. Ken Lay died saying he made all the right decisions and so will Bush. Sadly they were both wrong. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212822 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
