The word “mistake” seems to me a big understatement in terms of U.S. policy in Iraq. Nonetheless, lately there has been above coverage on the issue of top leaders admitting mistakes have been made in Iraq. Now…really? Isn’t that quite obviously that the U.S. strategy has not been working for years now.
In the past Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has admitted that there are things that should have been handled differently. Recently in an interview, she stated “As to whether the United States has made mistakes: Of course, I’m sure we have. “You can’t be involved in something as big as the liberation of a country like Iraq and all that has happened since, and I’m sure there are things that we could have done differently.” She left it at that and later told an 
Arabic news program that she will say more in her future books after she leaves office.
In addition, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a Nov 6th memo that “In my view it is time for a major adjustment… Clearly, what U.S. forces are currently doing in Iraq is not working well enough or fast enough.”
Delusional President Bush said earlier this year that “I think the biggest mistake that’s happened so far, at least from our country’s involvement in Iraq, is Abu Ghraib. We’ve been paying for that for a long period of time.” I am not sure much further a President of the U.S. can be from the truth when one only has to read or turn on the papers to see the mounting evidence that has been present for years that Iraq is in civil war and that the U.S. strategy is fundamentally flawed.
What are your thoughts on this issue?
