I don’t think he gets that we don’t actually trust his decisions. It’s precisely the fact that he thinks he’s chosen the best course that makes everyone want Congress to step in.
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Tags: iraq
Categories: In the News, Politics
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January 26th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
[...] Rewind 2005, Gregory Cochran wrote; The invasions went well, as expected, but in each case a tiresome guerrilla war broke out. The French eventually lost over a quarter of a million men in “the Spanish ulcer,” as Napoleon called it, while Iraq has tied down half of the Army and is costing us more than $75 Billion a year. What went wrong? As it turns out, Boney and Bush made some of the same mistakes. [...]