Rice admits US has made 'tactical errors in Iraq - thousands of them'

[ScottishJohn]

thanks for the link Actually, she was still a March fool at the time....


She spun out of this one. Rice meant figuratively, not literally regarding the phrase "a thousand", placing the emphasis on the actual "number" of tactical mistakes, while failing to name one specific mistake. Then she procedes to reinforce their tired and empty rhetoric....but we got Saddam....

SSDD

I bet if she counted them up there would be more than a thousand anyway. What I don't get is that they cannot put their hands up and properly admit to what is blatantly the biggest shambles of a military intervention for decades. Iraq is so obviously worse off in so many ways from when Saddam was in charge. If we can't do better than he did (and so far we are failing to do so) then surely we are making thousands of errors a month?

 

[ScottishJohn]

I think she meant to say miscalculation instead of error, she wasn't admiting any mistake as much as she was admiting haveing made a poor assesment of the situation and what would happen after the war.

Surely that is just another way of saying mistake?

Bremer was a mistake. Theres 1.

Ignoring all the copious advice which suggested there would be internecine war and failing to make provisions for it was another mistake. (2)

Feel free to expand the list.

 

[warispeace]

What have Bush lied about, Didnt one of Iraq's generals say that they had WMDs but moved them to syria, And we have video tapes that have suddam saying quote "We have weapons of Mass distruction".

Link please.

If you can't back up your claims, people will start to get the idea that you don't know what you're talking about.

 

[warispeace]

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/63980.htm



SEC. RICE: Glenn first of all -- look -- it was just an april fools' joke...

Since when is the State Department into practical jokes?