The Bush Team in Iraq - Moral Cowardice, as Practiced by Experts

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By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY

It is acknowledged almost everywhere except in official Washington and London that Iraq and Afghanistan have gone to hell in a hand cart, thanks in the main to appallingly poor planning by the Pentagon of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith, an arrogant trio of silly asses whose combined allocation of common-sense would fit comfortably in a peanut shell. Their incompetence is almost matched by that of their former representative in Baghdad, L Paul Bremer, who was masterly in his uncanny ability to make decisions that were exactly opposed to what would have worked in restoring the country to some sort of order.

The Bush Team in Iraq - Moral Cowardice, as Practiced by Experts

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1. good article, thanks.

>> uncanny ability to make decisions that were exactly opposed to what would have worked


that applies to just about everything bushco has done since the coup.

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2. Me wonders if Bremer was only doing the job he was sent to Baghdad to do