Fiasco

In today's New York Times there's an editorial about our soldiers not receiving commendations and medals for their service in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In my local paper there's a front page story about a young man from here who was just killed in Iraq.

I'm reading Fiasco by Thomas Ricks. (Please don't tell me how it ends - I'm only up to 2003). Man oh man do we need a book club or maybe a support group to discuss this book. I know Olberman has read it and I'm thinking Chris Matthews has as well. Because once you read it you will be so angry at the colossal mis-steps and failures of Bush, Rummy, Rice, Franks, Wolfowitz, Pearle, Feith, and Bremmer you will either want to drink heavily or throw things at your TV when you see Rumsfeld speak.

The fact that Franks and Bremmer received the Medal of Freedom instead of a speedy trial for treason and our soldiers are being shorted on medals makes me crazy.

Right now I'm up to the point where the administration was denying there was a war in Iraq after we toppled Saddam. You could cut and paste their denials for war then with their denials for civil war now.

If Bush & Co had spent more time on planning and dealing with reality instead of spinning we could have won the war in Iraq. We really could have.

Instead I read about a young man from a town over who was killed on a battlefield a world away.