Day: August 16, 2006

I heard an interview with the Washington Post’s Thomas Ricks on the Al Franken show.  He was outstanding.  I think that progressives have had reports of incompetence but for the first time we really have a clear picture with this book, Fiasco and the outstanding book, Cobra II.  Whether you are a progressive or a conservative, these two books clearly been delineated the problems that we’ve had in Iraq.  The problems come not from execution of a brilliant plan but yet the incompetence and the capitulation of General Tommy Franks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (although they don’t directly implicate him