Via Rook's Rant, Al Franken talks of the impossible task we have given our soldiers and the fact the media is not responsible for the downward spiral of Iraq. We can talk about outreach or we can talk about disaster, but neither speak of what really needs to be said:
"The truth of the matter is that the Bush administration has made enormous and tragic mistakes at every stage of this debacle. It overplayed the threat from Iraq and undersold the price, in lives and resources, of a war. It failed to plan for a post-invasion Iraq, ignored the threat of an insurgency and allowed a shoddy reconstruction rife with fraud, abuse and sheer amateurism to sabotage our efforts to put the pieces back together. Worst of all, it has failed to admit to its mistakes or adjust to emerging realities along the way, leaving us in what now seems to be a no-win situation."
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