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John McCain Needs to Chat With Tommy Franks
The LA Times catches John McCain dismissing a key criticism of the Iraq war:
"I know of no one who believes attention to Iraq at that point diverted our attention from Tora Bora," McCain said....
"We should have put more boots on the ground there to apprehend [Osama bin Laden]. Everyone agrees. But I have no reason to believe that because we urged attention to Iraq, it had any tactical effect on the battleground."
Tora Bora was where the American military had bin Laden pinned down in late 2001, only to have him escape from its grasp (you can read more here). As Think Progress helpfully points out, then-CENTCOM Commander Tommy Franks, who oversaw the Middle East, had the following reaction to the Bush Administration's instructions in November and December of 2001 to start planning for war in Iraq: "They were in the midst of one war in Afghanistan, and now they wanted detailed planning for another? Goddamn. What the f--k are they talking about?"
Want to know more? Read Plan of Attack. Or The One-Percent Doctrine. Or Cobra II. Planning for a second war while trying to fight the first compromised our effectiveness in both. That's indisputable, no matter what John McCain says.
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Good post, Stein. Why the f--k has the national media not jumped on this oversight?
Franks may have been right at that time, but after the Iraq invasion, he was blubbering about how "we" were so sure there were big ol' piles of WMD waiting to be found. Now he's raking in big dollars as a potted-plant corporate board hack. He's to honorable national service what Mark McGuire is to baseball.
How to bulldog public opinion.
Step 1: Obtain a position of power.
Step 2: Let Americans equate power with authority.
Step 3: Say whatever you want - confidently, and often enough that it becomes "common sense."
cf: "Iraq has WMDs;" "Don't Ask Don't Tell is a viable solution;" "These aren't the droids you're looking for;" etc.
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