That’s an exact quote from Bush last week at a press conference, when an NBC reporter kept asking him about Iraq and his hedging. In other words, history is repeating itself. In Vietnam, millions of dead civilians, and in Iraq, over 600,000 dead civilians so far. LBJ personally ran Vietnam, and ran it poorly from the White House Ready Room. Bush is doing exactly the same thing. LBJ had his Robert Strange McNamara, (who later wrote a book apologizing for Vietnam), and Bush has his “Rummy,” who is roundly denounced by most as being a self centered egotist, and total failure in Iraq. What military experience does George Bush have? What military experience did LBJ have? Not a minute’s worth. Bush has so little, that after making a huge mistake in going in, (after mostly republicans made an equally bad mistake allowing him to do it), the first thing he did was fire 100,000 armed soldiers who would have been delighted to do their job, maintain order, and clean up the Saddam mess. He not only fired 100,000 trained, armed, uniformed soldiers, but they took their weapons home with them, were then unemployed, had no income, and soon became poor and damned angry. Then no one thought to protect the priceless items in the Iraq museum, which was world renown, so the museum was ransacked and the articles were sold or hidden, thereby ruining one of the best collections of pre-Christian times artifacts. Hans Blix, the inspector who inspected many times and found no weapons of mass destruction, was ignored. The CIA (can’t identify anything) was paid attention to, and the disaster has resulted. Will it get better? Not likely, and I am certain that before Nov. 7th, something startling will happen in an attempt to win the election. Will the republicans lose the House? Probably, but who knows? Will they lose the Senate? Probably not, but nothing is certain. Why should a non-military man run a war? Should an illiterate teach reading? Should a housewife be hired to fix cars? Should a locomotive engineer be hired as an astronaut? For god’s sake, if we have to have a war, and we never have, except the Revolution, at least let the generals run it!
