Sunday, May 09, 2004
More interesting articles on Iraq
This article discusses conditions at Abu Ghraib prison, and how it was severely understaffed. This article discusses growing dissension at the upper levels of the US Military, and in particular, growing anger at mistakes made by Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Taken together, I think there is a strong case to be made the Donald Rumsfeld needs to go. It sounds to me like he severely understaffed the Iraq invasion. That's not a new opinion, but it certainly seems to have a lot more basis in hard evidence, albeit of the hindsight sort.
It's always perplexed me that people like Colin Powell, who HAS military experience, get overruled by people like Donald Rumsfeld, who lacks it. I would have a lot more trust in the Bush administration if he were to can Rumsfeld, though the appearance of weakness this close to an election likely makes that impossible.
This article discusses conditions at Abu Ghraib prison, and how it was severely understaffed. This article discusses growing dissension at the upper levels of the US Military, and in particular, growing anger at mistakes made by Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Taken together, I think there is a strong case to be made the Donald Rumsfeld needs to go. It sounds to me like he severely understaffed the Iraq invasion. That's not a new opinion, but it certainly seems to have a lot more basis in hard evidence, albeit of the hindsight sort.
It's always perplexed me that people like Colin Powell, who HAS military experience, get overruled by people like Donald Rumsfeld, who lacks it. I would have a lot more trust in the Bush administration if he were to can Rumsfeld, though the appearance of weakness this close to an election likely makes that impossible.
