Fiasco

[greenman3610]

interview on FreshAir
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5581049


The title of this devastating new book about the American war in Iraq says it all: “Fiasco.” That is the judgment that Thomas E. Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for The Washington Post, passes on the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq and its management of the war and the occupation. And he serves up his portrait of that war as a misguided exercise in hubris, incompetence and folly with a wealth of detail and evidence that is both staggeringly vivid and persuasive.

By virtue of the author’s wealth of sources within the American military and the book’s comprehensive timeline (beginning with the administration’s inflammatory statements about Saddam Hussein in the wake of 9/11, through the invasion and occupation, to the escalating religious and ethnic strife that afflicts the country today), “Fiasco” is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the United States came to go to war in Iraq, how a bungled occupation fed a ballooning insurgency and how these events will affect the future of the American military.

[MichiganVote]

1. Heard him interviewed on NPR today, very good

[TayTay]

2. I heard the reporter on Sunday on Meat the Press

He also said that he doesn't agree with a withdrawal plan and that the US will be in Iraq for 10-15 more years, albeit with a steady force of about 50,000 for the last ten years or so.

Sigh!

[wordpix2]

3. * already said today he will send more troops to Baghdad

Just as I was wondering WTF he's get the troops, he said he would move troops out of other areas into Baghdad.

sigh