] Most senior US military officers now believe the war
] on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented
] scale.
]
] 'Bring them on!" President Bush challenged the early
] Iraqi insurgency in July of last year. Since then, 812
] American soldiers have been killed and 6,290 wounded,
] according to the Pentagon. Almost every day, in campaign
] speeches, Bush speaks with bravado about how he is
] "winning" in Iraq. "Our strategy is succeeding," he
] boasted to the National Guard convention on Tuesday.
]
] But, according to the US military's leading strategists
] and prominent retired generals, Bush's war is already
] lost. Retired general William Odom, former head of the
] National Security Agency, told me: "Bush hasn't found the
] WMD. Al-Qaida, it's worse, he's lost on that front. That
] he's going to achieve a democracy there? That goal is
] lost, too. It's lost." He adds: "Right now, the course
] we're on, we're achieving Bin Laden's ends."

Everyone should read this because it scares me (already posted it here: http://www.memestreams.net/users/timball/blogid4430336).

--timball

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