Mistakes Were Made...

...no really.

Rice Concedes Errors in Iraq, Elsewhere - Forbes.com: "Rice Concedes Errors in Iraq, Elsewhere
By ANNE GEARAN , 03.31.2006, 08:47 AM
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice conceded Friday that the United States probably has made thousands of 'tactical errors' in Iraq and elsewhere, but said it will be judged by its larger aims of peace and democracy in the Middle East.

The U.S. diplomat met loud anti-war protests in the streets and skeptical questions about U.S. involvement in Iraq at a foreign policy salon Friday, including one about whether Washington had learned from its 'mistakes over the past three years.'

Rice replied that leaders would be 'brain-dead' if they did not absorb the lessons of their times.

'I know we've made tactical errors, thousands of them I'm sure,' Rice told an audience gathered by the British foreign policy think tank Chatham House. 'But when you look back in history, what will be judged will be, did you make the right strategic decisions.' "

Who made those mistakes? Should they be fired? Should they be re-elected? What lessons have you learned, oh grand lady? And exactly what was that strategy?

Let's see. Over in Reality 9090-A24c, Lincoln uses the Bush strategy. He assembles an overwhelming force, invades, say Wilmington or Charleston. Burns it to the ground and tells the Rebels they are now free to sign-up to fight for the Union. All the other Rebels, impressed by Lincoln's ravaging of North and South Carolina, immediately surrender, welcoming the Yankee hordes into Mississippi with flowers and swooning Southern belles...

Right? Right? Right...