Pentagon is lying its way out of an unwinnable war - again (Hackworth)

[struggle4progress]

Col. David Hackworth
Published: Sunday, Feb. 20, 2005

<snip> Most slugfests - from bar brawls to military misadventures like Vietnam and Iraq - take some clever moves to step away from once the swinging starts.

This is why most combat vets pick their fights carefully. They look at their scars, remember the madness and are always mindful of the fallout.

That’s not the case in Washington, where the White House and the Pentagon are run by civilians who have never sweated it out on a battlefield. Never before in our country’s history has an administration charged with defending our nation been so lacking in hands-on combat experience and therefore so ignorant about the art and science of war.

Now the increasingly flummoxed Bush team is stealing the page on Vietnamization from Nixon’s Exit Primer, coupled with the same deceitful tactics he used to get us out of the almost decade-long Vietnam quagmire: telling lies. <snip>

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050220/OPINION04/102200015/-1/opinion

[Starfury]

1. Nice article, but then at the bottom was this little gem...

"Bush needs to set up a truth squad directly outside his Oval Office door quicksmart. Then, whenever the Pentagon plays fast and loose with the truth, the liars can be immediately rounded up and punished."

Hate to tell the general, but when it comes to playing fast and loose with the truth, * ranks with the best of them...

[whistle]

2. A friend e-mailed this article to me this morning and I'm getting...

...this sense of "It’s déjà vu all over again"!

[HereSince1628]

3. This isn't bad. It took the US more than 10 years to choose to exit in VN

I don't even care if they blame us whining libruls for undermining American resolve to fight to our last non-politician.

[struggle4progress]

4. Well, there's been lots of mainstream "five to ten" buzz about Iraq.

[applegrove]

5. Those neocons and their fun-loving and wacky ASSUMPTIONS

[GetTheRightVote]

6. The WH is a part of the lies, hello Col, Sir

:kick:

[The Traveler]

7. Trust me

He knows that. Hackworth is wooing an audience that is clinging desperately to his denial.

[bklyncowgirl]

8. They got to lie they way out of Iraq.

So that they can lie their way in to Iran.

[rodeodance]

9. thanks for the post