Yeah, I was speaking tongue in cheek. I, and you know pretty much everybody, is pretty unhappy with the ‘surprizes’ we have faced in Iraq. They don’t call it ‘the fog of war’ for nothing; right? So now we have to stay the course; hence Powel’s urgent plea to the UN for help yesterday.
There’s my smiley face:
By the way how did we get through the last 1000 yrs. of literature without the emoticons? I mean Dante didn’t need them, Twain, nope, Thompson, nope… Nobody gets sarcasm anymore. Everybody’s to serious… or defensive or dim.
The second biggest surprise was General Eric Shinseki’s statement this spring that several hundred thousand American troops would be needed to properly occupy the counrty.
The biggest surprise is that he appears to be right.
I agree with the others who have already stated that not finding WMD’s was the biggest surprise.
Even the critics of the war before it started didn’t think that there weren’t any. IMHO, even Saddam thought that they existed because his people were exagerating progress reports to him.
While I agree that the total absence of Iraqi WMDs was a surprise (I was expecting we’d find a miniscule amount, to be used as a trumped-up reason for the war), I disagree that Saddam himself was fooled by his underlings – IMO, he’s just not the kind of guy who would believe what his folks told him on trust alone, y’know?
