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To: LindyBill who wrote (164124)	4/20/2006 4:03:02 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	of 793725

The fact is that in major wars, there are major errors. Many major errors. Tactical, operational and strategic errors are committed before the war comes to a close. And that is on the victorious side. The last Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, presided over disasters including the loss of the Philippines, Kasserine Pass and the initial reverses of the Battle of the Bulge. Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, had the misfortune to go through miserable years of defeat and retreat. The great and justly acclaimed General George C. Marshall, the architect of victory in WWII, as Truman's Secretary of Defense, had to suffer much blame during the highly unpopular Korean War. The idea that the United States can wage a war on al Qaida or in Iraq or anywhere for that matter and never suffer a reverse or make mistakes is nothing short of ahistorically surreal. Bingo. Right on the money. The generals who are speaking out may or may not know what a war is, but the media they are using definitely does not know the difference between a war and a civil engineering project. The generals play on that ignorance quite successfully.

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