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To: michael97123 who wrote (149062)	10/26/2004 8:36:48 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Who is arguing that they are incompetent? Not me. Off base, misguided, ideologically constrained, dangerous, yes, I would use many of those words and more to describe them. You are trying to position the mess in Iraq as simple "errors in delivery (operations)". I have very clearly stated that the mess in Iraq is an error in conception. I am not talking about planning for a war, I am talking about the long term policy think that goes on way before in order to justify an eventual war and long term strategy. We are talking about two quite different things. The policy folks are responsible for the latter; the operational folks the former. Both have screwed up but the policy side which determines the future direction for defense is by far the most dangerous error. I can see why you'd like to blame the "ops" people - it leaves a suggestion in some minds that if we merely replace those in charge of "ops" that all will be much better in Bush II. Nothing could be farther from the truth.