Much of the debate at Leavenworth has centered on a scathing article, "A Failure in Generalship," written last May for Armed Forces Journal by Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, an Iraq veteran and deputy commander of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment who holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. "If the general remains silent while the statesman commits a nation to war with insufficient means, he shares culpability for the results," Colonel Yingling wrote.
Go read this article in the New York Times. It's about Army officers stationed at Fort Leavenworth - and they're discussing the Debacle in Iraq. It ends this way:
One question that silenced many of the officers was a simple one: Should the war have been fought?
"I honestly don’t know how I feel about that," Major Powell said in a telephone conversation last week after the discussions at Leavenworth.
"That’s a big, open question," General Caldwell said after a long pause.
That is not an open question. There is no way on god's earth that this war should have been fought. You may argue that it should have been fought differently, but if that were the case, "this" war is not the one that would have been fought.
"This" war is a disaster of epic proportions. Republicans are responsible for it.
They deserve to be fired for incompetence. Starting with Elizabeth Dole.