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TripeOmatic Donating Member (68 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 10:30 PM
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When will someone finally say that we've lost The Fiasco in Iraq?
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I thought I'd ask just how long it's going to be before we acknowledge that we've already lost the war in Iraq. As a nation we seem to be really slow to catch on. I mean, just how long was it between the time the Watergate 'burglary' happened and the 'resignation'?

September 9, 1971: The White House "plumbers" unit - named for their orders to plug leaks in the administration - burglarizes a psychiatrist's office to find files on Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

August 8, 1974: Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to resign. Vice President Gerald R. Ford assumes the country's highest office. He will later pardon Nixon of all charges related to the Watergate case.

Yikes! Another 2-3 years? It's my take that the new book 'Fiasco' is an attempt to 'say' we've lost the war without the direct articulation. I hear people saying "We want to impeach Bush" but I hear no one saying (yet) "We've lost another war of choice". I recommend saying it to everyone.

Fiasco review - Slate

Washington Post interview

RealClearPolitics


I hope that this time there'll be no pardon.
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