thinkprogress.org — According to USA Today, the strategy “was ignored or rejected for years by key decision-makers,” like Vice President Dick Cheney, who “insisted the insurgency was dying”: "Those pronouncements delayed the Pentagon from embracing new plans to stop IEDs and investing in better armored vehicles that allow troops to patrol more freely..."
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hawkeye17Dec 19, 2007
Is anyone surprised by this incompetence anymore or are we all just numb to it now?
Closed AccountDec 20, 2007
It's all beside the point. We should not be engaged in the illegal invasion of Iraq. The perps must be punished.