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Jim Yanik wrote:


you know,after Pearl Harbor and the beginning of WW2 in Europe,things went
bad for a few years,then generals were changed,and things turned around.
And that is what has happened here in Iraq.

"[W]e made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle,
and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be
a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to
command our armies, and all our best generals to edit
the newspapers."

--Robert E. Lee