Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Colin Powell: It's a Civil War

Gen. Colin Powell, architect of the Gulf War and Secretary of State during the Iraq War, has this to say about the situation we are in right now.

"That was the big mistake. Don had written a list of the worst things that could happen, but we didn't do the contingency planning on what we would do about it. So we watched those buildings get burned down, and nobody told the divisions, 'Hey, go in there and declare martial law and whack a few people and it will stop.' Then the insurgency started, and we didn't acknowledge it. They said it wasn't an insurgency. They looked up the definition. They said it was a few dead-enders! And so we didn't respond in a way that might have stopped it. And then the civil war started at the beginning of last year. I call it a civil war, but some say no, it's not a civil war, it's a war against civilians. In fact, we have total civil disorder."

So even the "cakewalk" brigade saw this coming, only they did nothing. Ron Paul is right, at this point, we just need to leave.

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