PISSED

If we lose this war it will be catastrophic for Democracy around the globe.

1. Four guys dead from a car bomb. Why? Suddenly the upper eschalons are SURPRISED. Jesus H. Christ, the terrorists have been car bombing for twenty years. How can anyone be surprised? Where's the training?

2. And Syria is SMUGGLING weapons into Iraq, and this is another fucking SURPRISE??? Assad is a member of the Baath Party, he's a dictator, they have a 1.000 mile border with Iraq. How can our planners be SURPRISED??? AGAIN????

3. As far as the equally stupid big surprise in Turkey see my post below, but the current regime is hard core Muslim and the leader has a long record of being anti-American. Anybody who reads should know this.

4. The "surrender ambush" was another example of shit training which I pointed out in the link.

5. Two separate cases of troops unable to read maps so they are now dead.

I think there is a serious lack of planning for the obvious: Syrian intervention, Iranian intervention, Turkish interference, and car bombs. Then there is the absolutely astounding "failure of intel" regarding the Baath Party strength inside Iraq; Tenet is a fool with an unmatched record of incompetence going back five years. House to house fighting in every town with (another big surprise) Al Qaeda terrorists; with Fedayeen terrorists. You think this is good? Iran stopped suicide boat bombers, but this didn't cause our elite corps to think about car bombs. Now four guys are dead, not officers of course.

If we lose this war it will be catastrophic for Democracy around the globe. It will mark the end of our civilization. We cannot afford to lose. We cannot afford Richard Pearles, George Tenents, and ego tripping civilians who think they know how to plan a war. We cannot afford not to know about Turkey, Syria, low flying missles from China, and all the rest.

Sure we've gone a long way in terms of miles. We control the desert. Saddam controls all the towns. Let's be realistic, at least. Comparing this with the WWII campaign in the Pacific is stupid. We never outran our supplies in WWII and we now have refugees feeding our starving Marines. And, if there had been a reporting press we might have had to sue for peace after Tarawa where our genius Admirals and Generals led our troops into a slaughter unmatched since the stupidity in WWI. Don't watch too many WWII movies. Tarawa was inexcuseably horrible, and it was entirely the fault of the brass. If you read about it you will wonder why there weren't at least 10 courts martials.

Don't confuse territory with victory. Hannibal conquered territory. Napoleon ditto.