Bremer says U.S. did not expect insurgency in Iraq"we really didn't see the insurgency coming"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2026118&mesg_id=2026118:wow: :wow: :wow:
For starters...
"Stand tall and publicly tell the America people the truth about another bad war that could well lead to another died-in-vain black wall. Or even worse." -Col. David Hackworth
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29786"Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."-President GHW Bush, 1998;
http://www.rense.com/general43/quote.htm "Do we really want to occupy Iraq for the next 30 years? …In Japan, American occupation forces quickly became 50,000 friends. In Iraq, they would quickly become 50,000 terrorist targets…. Nations such as China can only view the prospect of an American military consumed for the next generation by the turmoil of the Middle East as a glorious windfall."
-James Webb, former Sec. of Navy under Ronald Reagan, Decorated Marine Veteran
http://www.sftt.org/article09302002a.html"We are about to do something that will ignite a fuse in this region that we will rue the day we ever started." -Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, former Head of Central Command for U.S.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/10/17/zinni "A billion bitter enemies will rise out of this war." - Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2003, Full page ad in Wall Street Journal by major GOP contributors
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/001444.html "Right now, the course we're on, we're achieving Bin Laden's ends…. I've never seen it so bad between the office of the secretary of defense and the military. There's a significant majority believing this is a disaster.
The two parties whose interests have been advanced have been the Iranians and al-Qaeda. Bin Laden could argue with some cogency that our going into Iraq was the equivalent of the Germans in Stalingrad. They defeated themselves by pouring more in there. Tragic."
-Gen. William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091704Y.shtml "The idea that this is going to go the way these guys planned is ludicrous. There are no good options."-General Joseph Hoare, the former marine commandant and head of US Central Command
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091704Y.shtml There's STUPID...and then there's rightwingnut.