Iraq: Because VIETNAM Was Such A Success!

[Beetwasher]

Security Scholars Say Iraq War Most Misguided Policy Since Vietnam

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct 12 (OneWorld) – The U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq (news - web sites) has been the “most misguided” policy since the Vietnam War, according to an open letter signed by some 500 U.S. national-security specialists.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=655&e=7&u=/oneworld/4536958861097601506

[shaolinmonkey]

1. I love this:

Besides Posen, the main organizers included Stanley Kaufman of the University of Delaware; Michael Brown, director of Security Studies at Georgetown University; Michael Desch, who holds the Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security Decision-Making at the Bush School of government at Texas A & M University; and Jessica Stern, at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, who also served in a senior counter-terrorism post in the National Security Council during the Clinton administration.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Hey.... when you plan on stealing another country.... you had better have

a plan for what comes after besides bombs and bullets.