Now that the war has started, I won't keep harping on about how I'm not sure we should be fighting. Rather, let's look at some of the issues that have crept up since the fighting began - like that not all of our forces had even arrived in the region when Messrs. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz decided to kick things off. Yes, the President is the man who actually ordered the strikes, but these two clowns are the ones who developed the "plans" and advised the President on how to fight the bloomin' thing.
BTW, it looks like they're doing a collosally bad job of it. For some reason they really thought that a few missiles and bombs would do the trick and the Iraqis would just roll over for us. In buying into the garbage, they happen to be ignoring some really important items.
1. You don't own a piece of land until you stick an 18 year-old with a rifle on it, and even then, you only own that little bit. Air strikes won't do this.
2. The air war during Desert Storm was successfuly because it was overwhelming and long. It lasted a month before ground troops went in. We hit everything. When it was over, there was virtually no Iraqi C3I left to coordinate a ground defense.
3. We didn't really invade Iraq, and we weren't threatening anyone with war crimes trails.
4. All of our forces were in place before the ground phase began, not sailing around looking for dry land.
More to follow...
Posted by Chris at March 25, 2003 12:31 PM