Damn shame the 'tough sledding' didn't go right into a tree in 1993.
Posted by tempus at November 18, 2006 09:50 PMWhoops, darn decades! 2003, unless we are referring to the Islamic year, AH 1424. Do you know, George Bush was born in the Chinese year of the Rat?
And I believe all the firstborn chickens in Texas died when he moved to the Lone Star State. Col. Sanders got the lot of 'em, from what I read.
Posted by tempus at November 18, 2006 09:56 PMWas there ever any hope of success in Iraq? Is it possible that anyone in the Bush cabinet actually imagined it might be? Was there a single thing that was done to assure success?
Ignoring Shinseki's recommendation to use 400,000 troups to do the job, and instead using about a third that many certainly did not. Nor did a "Stuff will happen" policy. Nor did deBaathification. Nor did a steady denial of the facts that happened to be politically inconvenient. Insisting "mission accomplished, it's getting better... " created self-delusion.
Rice's account ought to be one more nail in the coffin of "faith-based" leadership.
Posted by steve at November 19, 2006 05:27 PMCondi Rice is an expert of nothing. Her touted credentials indicate a divine faith in rote solutions based entirely on the past, without respect to cultural and tribal differences.
In her world, she also assumes she must like watermelon and dance well. Rather than challenge such stereotypes, she then figures "If I have to dance, I'm damn sure gonna do it in fine shoes."
Posted by Kevin Hayden at November 20, 2006 11:52 AM