Comments on: What Went Wrong? http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/11/19/what-went-wrong/ "If not now, when?" Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:12:06 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: eatbees http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/11/19/what-went-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-47 eatbees Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:11:24 +0000 http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/11/19/what-went-wrong/#comment-47 I just went and found the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1996-2002Feb12?language=printer" target=_blank rel="nofollow">original article</a>, "Cakewalk in Iraq," Washington Post, February 13, 2002 (very early indeed!): "I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk." He also said: "Hussein constitutes the number one threat against American security and civilization. Unlike Osama bin Laden, he has billions of dollars in government funds, scores of government research labs working feverishly on weapons of mass destruction [wrong!] — and just as deep a hatred of America and civilized free societies." "Civilized free societies"...!?!? I almost feel sorry for the man and his regurgitated thought process. He also said: "Measured by any cost-benefit analysis, such an operation would constitute the greatest victory in America's war on terrorism." This is not exactly a first-class mind. It's not a very well-written article either. What's embarassing is that the Post published it. I just went and found the original article, “Cakewalk in Iraq,” Washington Post, February 13, 2002 (very early indeed!):

“I believe demolishing Hussein’s military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.”

He also said:

“Hussein constitutes the number one threat against American security and civilization. Unlike Osama bin Laden, he has billions of dollars in government funds, scores of government research labs working feverishly on weapons of mass destruction [wrong!] — and just as deep a hatred of America and civilized free societies.”

“Civilized free societies”…!?!? I almost feel sorry for the man and his regurgitated thought process. He also said:

“Measured by any cost-benefit analysis, such an operation would constitute the greatest victory in America’s war on terrorism.”

This is not exactly a first-class mind. It’s not a very well-written article either. What’s embarassing is that the Post published it.

]]> By: Ibn Kafka http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/11/19/what-went-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Ibn Kafka Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:06:01 +0000 http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/11/19/what-went-wrong/#comment-46 Kenneth Adelman, isn't that the neo-con who talked, prior to the invasion of Iraq, of it as a "cakewalk"? Kenneth Adelman, isn’t that the neo-con who talked, prior to the invasion of Iraq, of it as a “cakewalk”?

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