Tuesday, March 28, 2006

World War III

From Eric Haney, an original member of the military's antiterrorist "Delta Force," comes this rather pointed assessment of the war:

Utter debacle. But it had to be from the very first. The reasons were wrong. The reasons of this administration for taking this nation to war were not what they stated. (Army Gen.) Tommy Franks was brow-beaten and ... pursued warfare that he knew strategically was wrong in the long term. That's why he retired immediately afterward. His own staff could tell him what was going to happen afterward.

We have fomented civil war in Iraq. We have probably fomented internecine war in the Muslim world between the Shias and the Sunnis, and I think Bush may well have started the third world war, all for their own personal policies.

Wait'll you read what he says about torture!

(Via Huffington Post, but originally published - whatthehelliswrongwiththispicture - in the entertainment section of an LA paper.)