Adding to the frustration, several officers said, is that much of their equipment is in poor condition and that they are short on ammunition and food.

here's another sentence in George Bush's State of the Union address that wasn't true: "We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents and other generations."
There's no mystery about why the administration's budget projections have borne so little resemblance to reality: realistic budget numbers would have undermined the case for tax cuts.

What we are witnessing is how ugly it can get when control freaks start losing control.

Senator McCarthy, she has come to believe, is a misunderstood patriot who saved the country from itself.

"The public, the distinguished military analyst wrote from Baghdad, had been led "into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor."
"They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information," he said. "The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows."" Lawrence of Arabia — writing in The Sunday Times of London on Aug. 22, 1920