Iraq: Disaster

Sidney Blumenthal writing in today's Guardian reports that "according to the US military's leading strategists and prominent retired generals, Bush's war is already lost." This is depressing stuff but I recommend the entire article.

'General Odom remarked that the tension between the Bush administration and the senior military officers over Iraqi was worse than any he has ever seen with any previous government, including Vietnam. "I've never seen it so bad between the office of the secretary of defence and the military. There's a significant majority believing this is a disaster. The two parties whose interests have been advanced have been the Iranians and al-Qaida. Bin Laden could argue with some cogency that our going into Iraq was the equivalent of the Germans in Stalingrad. They defeated themselves by pouring more in there. Tragic."'