Robert Waldmann listens to Donald Rumsfeld talk about how we had to invade Iraq because dangerous terrorist groups like Ansar Al Islam used it as a base. (Although, of course, Donald Rumsfeld doesn't tell his interlocutors that Ansar Al Islam's base was in the Kurdish north where Saddam Hussein's writ did not run.) Robert then puzzles over why destroying Ansar Al Islam was not a higher priority for the U.S. military. He concludes:
Posted by DeLong at November 8, 2003 03:48 PM | TrackBackrobert's random thoughts: It seems to me that [one reason] US forces in Iraq are in trouble [today is] because the Bush administration did not let minor objectives like catching terrorists by surprise get in the way of its "war on terrorism."