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America's generals have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq.... America's generals did not provide Congress and the public with an accurate assessment of the conflict in Iraq....
After going into Iraq with too few troops and no coherent plan for postwar stabilization, America's general officer corps did not accurately portray the intensity of the insurgency to the American public. The Iraq Study Group concluded that "there is significant underreporting of the violence in Iraq." The ISG noted that "on one day in July 2006 there were 93 attacks or significant acts of violence reported. Yet a careful review of the reports for that single day brought to light 1,100 acts of violence. Good policy is difficult to make when information is systematically collected in a way that minimizes its discrepancy with policy goals."
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All over again:
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Which brings me to this: We veterans didn't lose the war. The protestors didn't lose the war. Even Hanoi Jane, (though I detest her to this day), didn't lose the war. The lying fucking government of Lyndon Johnson, Robert MacNamara and his uniformed henchman, General Westmoreland lost the war. They lost it by lying to get us in...by lying to send more troops...and by lying about "body counts".
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Throughout my teenage years, I heard every politican say "we will never make the mistakes of Vietnam again." Lyin' bastids ...
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