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Bush was warned that the U.S. would need a post invasion force of hundreds of thousands to provide some stability and security inside of Iraq. Rumsfeld dismissed that advice, and the General who gave it was ridiculed for his opinion. The State Department planning team for post invasion Iraq was sidelined, and that task was instead given to Cheney's people. Rumsfeld dismissed the early stages of the insurgency against American occupation as just a bunch of "dead enders". All wrong, tragically wrong, deadly wrong, so why hasn't Rumsfeld apologized? Why hasn't Bush dismissed him?
Kerry needs to be crisp and sharp when Bush comes at him asking for an "apology for his remarks". No more talk now about chicken hawks and swiftboaters, just a demand that Bush apologize to the nation both for the mistakes he has made and for those he allowed others to make in his name without facing any consequences. No one has lost their job in the Bush Administration over Iraq War mistakes, except maybe Colin Powell who came the closest of any of them to remotely get it right. The Americans who have paid for those mistakes are the thousands of soldiers coming back maimed or in coffins.
So where is George Bush's apology to the nation now for having been so devastatingly wrong? Whether Bush thinks we should leave or stay in Iraq now, where is his apology for needlessly sending American soldiers off to die in Iraq in the first place? Sent into Iraq without the equipment they needed, and without real plans to guarantee that their mission, unfounded as it may have been, had any chance to succeed?
Hit him hard there John.
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