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Longevity does not necessarily bring wisdom
Biden was wrong on the surge. Biden was the one whose wisdom was to recommend that Iraq be partitioned into four zones - an approach that would have guaranteed a Shia region completely dependent on Iran. Biden has been around many years and can tell decent stories but Biden is such an ideologue he is incapable of actually looking at the data. The ...
Posted to War Stories by Student1776 on October 3, 2008
Egregious Factual Error in Feith's book
Feith's book contains a serious error that undermines its credibility. On page 187, Feith writes that the ''CIA's assessment of Iraq's support for terrorism was reinforced by postwars discoveries'', and then goes on to claim that ''among the terrorists whom Saddam harbored in Iraq were .. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi''. This is categorically false. The ...
Posted to Fighting Words by jsill on June 3, 2008