How the GOP lost the war in Iraq.

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How the GOP lost the war in Iraq


Losing has nothing to do with having a timeline or putting spending limits on a four year old war. The GOP caused the failure through their own actions and inactions.

GOP didn't volunteer for this volunteer army in sufficient numbers which led to
a) use of national guard forces to a degree never intended
b) use of mercenaries instead of well trained regular army
c) use of troops without complete training
d) use of troops without sufficient equipment
e) use of troops for excessive number of deployments
f) use of troops without adequate dwelltime between deployments
g) failure of troops supervision leading to events such as abu graibh which worked dramatically against overall mission
h) decline in standards in order to fill 'body counts'

GOP didn't demand the best possible war strategy.
Instead they meekly accepted
a) Bushco ignoring Shinseki> Shinseki with full authority of the military and proven military strategic war plans in hand said the war would take several hundred thousand troops.
b) Bushco ignored the advice of allies in the middle east who said that without Saddam the country would deteriorate into civil war
c) Bushco left unguarded hundreds of tons of munitions
d) Bushco placed individuals without any relevant experience in key positions
e) Bushco fostered war profiteering gone wild whereby Halliburton effectively poisoned our own troops using inadequately treated water and unhealthy foods
f) Bushco ignored early indication of problems allowing problems to fester and explode into violence

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1. Just a little problem

Members of the republican party and their supporters are not responsible for anything that goes wrong relative to the Iraq "issue."

I'm having trouble with that since they are the party of "responsibility" AND integrity.