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Powell: 'We Are Losing' In Iraq

 

"It's grave and deteriorating," Colin Powell said on CBS News' "Face the Nation" today. "And as Secretary-designate of Defense Bob Gates said at his confirmation hearing, we're not winning. So if it's grave and deteriorating and we're not winning, we are losing.

"We haven't lost," Powell added. "And this is the time, now, to start to put in place the kinds of strategies that will turn this situation around."

The Pilgrim continues to contend that there is no 'turning this situation around.'  Iraq is so deteriorated that we have in fact lost.  Violence is so rampant in Iraq that the US troops are impotent to stop it.  And US troops have suffered nearly 25,000 total killed and wounded.

Why won't Powell and others say this? They don't want to be accused of speaking disparagingly of US troops. 

It can be said without attacking the troops. 

This war was not lost on the battlefields of Iraq.  It was lost in the war room in Washington, DC.  The troops were placed in an impossible situation, and an avoidable one. 

Powell comes close, however, to getting it right.  The critical mass continues to build.

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