Rice: "US made thousands of errors in Iraq..." Ya think?

[ourbluenation]

Rice Admits 'Thousands' of Errors in Iraq
By Gideon Long and Sue Pleming, REUTERS

BLACKBURN, England (March 31) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accepted on Friday the United States had probably made thousands of errors in Iraq but defended the overall strategy of removing Saddam Hussein.

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Local Muslims and anti-war activists told Rice to "Go Home" when British counterpart Jack Straw earlier led her on a tour of his home town of Blackburn in the industrial northwest, an area which rarely plays host to overseas politicians.

"Yes, I know we have made tactical errors, thousands of them," she said in answer to a question over whether lessons had been learned since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. jr, if asked about it, would "strongly disagree"

[ourbluenation]

2. 1000's of errors have caused 1000's of lives. Why can't we fire these

people. In any other arena, making 1000's of errors shows you the door.

[Canuckistanian]

3. "What went wrong?" he would probably say

[ourbluenation]

4. working hard - making progress...

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. mak'n GOOD progress

[Canuckistanian]

6. turning that corner...

[C_U_L8R]

7. if Rice admits to thousands of mistakes

then there must have been millions of mistakes.

Or just one mistake... George W Bush

[seabeyond]

8. 'Thousands' of Errors .... hence, their asses should be fired

what happens to us when we make 1, 2, 3 mistakes. make a mistake adn we could end up in jail.

1000's of mistakes, surely that warrents being fired

[cap]

9. can we fire you now, Condie????

for all those thousands of errors?

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. They're not errors!

There friggin' people, human beings. 1000's of lives lost and destroyed because of this witch's mistakes. Why does this idiot still have a job?

[teryang]

11. Strategic error -geopolitical blunder

Not tactical errrors. Tactically, everything could go right but nothing cures a strategic blunder. Limiting the concession of errors to tactics implies the situation could be turned around, it can't. The longer we stay, the worse it gets.

Huge costs, always increasing, with no benefit. Our departure is inevitable.

[Plaid Adder]

12. Actually, Condi, you only really made one error.

You STARTED AN UNNECESSARY WAR.

Everything after that was just fallout.

Idiots, all of them,

The Plaid Adder

[grytpype]

13. They were just TACTICAL errors, silly!

And since the strategy was so good, it's all going to work out and we will achieve victory despite making thousands and thousands of tactical errors!

Wow. How long can they hold on?

[greekspeak]

14. Thousands of errors? I bet MILLIONS of errors

Starting with our ever being there in the first place.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

15. This war has made Con Dee's ship come in.... and there it goes

now.... fitting when you think about it.

[C_U_L8R]

16. I distrust people like Rice

who speak of "strategy" but never ever offer up a "real plan".
We call em empty suits.

There seems to be an acute deficit of thinking in the administration...
as Sec Rice and her Monkey Master prove again and again. Lots of empty suits.
The incompetence is breathtaking and the sheer stupidity.. astounding.

[ladjf]

17. Yes. 100,000 + Iraqi dead, 2300 + Americans dead,

1000 year old cities destroyed, 500 billion dollars squandered. Yes, some errors were made Ms. Rice and you were one of the main criminals that made those "errors".

[bullwinkle428]

18. But for some reason, her boss couldn't think of one mistake at all

when asked about it in the debates! :wtf: