Following up on the recent McClatchy Article on the Bush distortion of what is really going on in Iraq. One of the problems within Iraq is that broad assertions about the nature of the conflict have been made by the Bush administration that have proven to be false, or have lead to strategic errors.
If we have made strategic errors, we must also accept that we have either had poor intelligence, or our assumptions about the nature of the Iraq conflict have been wrong. I tend to believe that it is our view of Iraq that has been wrong and has caused us so much grief. If we accept we have made a strategic error we must also accept the logical consequence that the error was an integral part of our thinking.
According to the McClatchy article, a pattern of malformed assumptions continues, and it likely follows that further strategic errors will follow those assumptions:
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