Retired General says George Bush has gone AWOL.

“To put this in a simple army metaphor, the Commander-in-Chief seems to have gone AWOL, that is ‘absent without leave."

“Most Americans suspect that something is fundamentally wrong with the President’s management of the conflict in Iraq. And they are right.


“The challenge we face today is not how to win in Iraq; it is how to recover from a strategic mistake: invading Iraq in the first place. The war could never have served American interests.

“But it has served Iran’s interest by revenging Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iran in the 1980s and enhancing Iran’s influence within Iraq. It has also served al Qaeda’s interests, providing a much better training ground than did Afghanistan, allowing it to build its ranks far above the levels and competence that otherwise would have been possible.


“We cannot ‘win’ a war that serves our enemies interests and not our own. Thus continuing to pursue the illusion of victory in Iraq makes no sense. We can now see that it never did.

This is not information that most of us don't already know, but it is remarkable the types of military people that are coming forward to tell us that they share our opinions of George Bush's Iraq policies. My only question is where were you when this whole thing began? We could have really used more of these dissenting opinions back then.