| Bush should wipe the grin off his face, if only for the fact that neither him nor anyone of his family are on the ground having to deal what's happening in Iraq.
The civilian and military death-toll continues to mount, as it has done continually since the initial fall of Baghdad. And while the terrorist attacks get worse, the insurgency continues to grow, and the world watches the daily mounting death toll in Iraq, Bush continues to think the best way to make friends is by gloating, swaggering and making trite speaches about democracy being on the march while he helps get rid of democracies in other parts of the world.
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WASHINGTON — The war in Iraq is forcing top Pentagon planners to rethink several key assumptions about the use of military power and has called into question the vision set out nearly four years ago that the armed forces can win wars and keep the peace with small numbers of fast-moving, lightly armed troops.
As the Pentagon begins a comprehensive review that will map the future of America's armed forces, many Defense Department officials are acknowledging that an intractable Iraqi insurgency they didn't foresee has undermined the military strategy....
Something happened on the way to the wars of the future: The Pentagon became bogged down in an old-fashioned, costly and drawn-out war of occupation. Though the rapid assault on Baghdad in March 2003 went smoothly, it is the bloody two years since that have diverged from the Pentagon's blueprint....
"The administration was flat wrong on Iraq because they had blinders on," said a senior Army official who worked on strategic planning at the Pentagon. "There's now a much greater perception that we need to know what we're signing up for before we get into it."
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