Fucking It Up

In the run up to the Iraq war, one of the bigger reasons I opposed the war, and there were several reason, was that this administration was, and is, in no way, shape, or form, competent enough to prosecute it. I knew they couldn't help but fuck it up.

Today, in London, Condoleezza Rice admitted as much. From Reuters:

"Yes, I know we have made tactical errors, thousands of them," she [Rice] said in answer to a question over whether lessons had been learned since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Yes, that's very true, and unfortunately, a lot of those errors cannot be simply corrected. Look, out invasion of Iraq very much resembled an elephant breaking and then trying to repair a pocket watch. Very heavy on force, but unable to grasp the pieces to put it back together. In fact, an elephant could have probably written a better post-war strategy if a large enough keyboard could have been found. That leads us to Rumsfeld.

If Rice is out there saying these things, the writing is probably on the wall for Rumsfeld. I had read somewhere that Bolten's first job would be to can Rumsfeld, Rice's statements now lead me to believe that to be true.