Congress has many responsibilities, but the micromanagement of war is not one of them.
Micromanagement of the war, through arbitrary timelines for withdrawal, does not belong in a bill whose purpose is to support the troops," Radanovich said.
(via)The U.S.- and British-educated engineer and financier is the first senior Iraqi official to look back at book length on his country's four-year ordeal. It's an unsparing look at failures both American and Iraqi, an account in which the word "ignorance" crops up repeatedly.
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In his 2006 memoir of the occupation, Bremer wrote that senior U.S. generals wanted to recall elements of the old Iraqi army in 2003, but were rebuffed by the Bush administration. Bremer complained generally that his authority was undermined by Washington's "micromanagement."
Micromanagment; equals success when instituted by the Executive Branch and intolerable when used by the Legislative.
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Posted by kerry at April 10, 2007 03:19 AM