I don't think anyone blames the troops, except those individual soldiers who are actually at fault, so I fault the commanders and their commanders all the way up to President Loser who gives idiotic ideas to the troops about what they are fighting for.
Iraq isn't the Armageddon of Christianity versus Islam, it's an oil-rich country in the middle of an oil-hungry world. However, to hear President Loser talk about it, Iraq is some kind of showdown for western civilization.
It's utterly ridiculous and it makes young, unsophisticated, testosterone-laden kids act badly. It also makes older, unsophisticated testosterone-laden adults act badly as well.
========= I thought I heard Bremer start to whine about his reputation. Didn't Bush say repeatedly that no one called for more troops because he would have sent more? In Clintonian parsing speak, he will likely say (or McClellan will) that he meant the MILITARY guys and Bremer wasn't a military guy....so there, Bush still isn't ever at fault.
U.S. Studied Bremer's '04 Bid for More Troops
By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 13, 2006; Page A17
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that he seriously considered a 2004 memo from L. Paul Bremer, then the senior U.S. official in Iraq, calling for tens of thousands more U.S. troops to quell the insurgency. But he said military commanders and service chiefs disagreed with Bremer.
Bremer's memo, dated May 18, 2004, urged Rumsfeld to dispatch as many as two additional divisions -- or about 30,000 troops -- to Iraq, to meet myriad demands, including fighting insurgents, border control and securing convoy routes. The request, disclosed in Bremer's new book on his year-long tenure in Iraq, reflected what he said was his fear that the United States was becoming "the worst of all things -- an ineffective occupier.".....
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