Rice admits "errors"

Dear editor:

A high ranking member of the Bush Administration has finally taken a second look and candidly admitted that the five year old leadership of the United States has made mistakes. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the Bush administration has probably made thousands of "tactical errors" in its handling of the Iraq war. "I know we've made tactical errors, thousands of them I'm sure," Rice said. "But when you look back in history, what will be judged is, did you make the right strategic decisions." In response to a question of whether the administration has learned from their experience, she said that they would be “brain dead” if they did not recognize where they had erred. (One can’t help but notice that she kept referring to the mistakes in the sugar coated term of “errors” instead of the deadly blunders they actually were.)

What she didn’t touch on though, was what the cost of these “errors” and learning curve had been. Was the education for the neo-con gang who couldn’t shoot straight worth the over 2,300 American troop deaths, the over 15,000 Americans wounded, an estimated 30,000 Iraqis dead, a brewing civil war, the contempt of the entire Muslim/Arab world, a financial cost that is helping to sink the United States deeper and deeper into debt, the loss of faith in America by so many of our so-called allies, and the dangerously deep and growing division the war has created within our own citizenry? All this she has the nerve to define as “errors?” Sounds more like tragedy.