Archivado en: internacional | escrito por goleech | 11/17/2005 | 23:34

Senadores, Republicanos y Demócratas, expertos en guerra, veteranos de Vietnam, el ex presidente Bill Clinton, la mayoría de los estadounidenses y el mundo entero están de acuerdo en que la invasión (guerra) de Estados Unidos en Iraq fue un error, un gran error.

The next day, Mr Clinton weighed in from the Middle East, saying the war as it unfolded was "a big mistake". It was a good thing Saddam Hussein had gone, the former president said, "but I don't agree with what was done". The administration underestimated "how easy it would be to overthrow Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country".

He said President George Bush had made "several errors, including the total dismantlement of the authority structure of Iraq". He added: "We never sent enough troops and didn't have enough troops to control or seal the borders." Across those porous borders, "the terrorists came in. That was the central mistake, and we're still living with that".

The Independent, 18 de noviembre de 2005

The partisan furor over the Iraq war ratcheted up sharply on Capitol Hill on Thursday, as an influential House Democrat on military matters called for the immediate withdrawal of American troops and Republicans escalated their attacks against the Bush administration's critics.

Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, a Vietnam combat veteran who voted for the Iraq war, said that after more than two years of combat, American forces had united a disparate array of insurgents in a seemingly endless cycle of violence that was impeding Iraq's progress toward stability and self-governance. He said that the 153,000 American troops in Iraq should be pulled out within six months.

The New York Times, 18 de noviembre de 2005

A todas estas críticas, según reporta el NYT, la oficina de prensa del presidente George W. Bush difundió un comunicado argumentando que el Demócrata John P. Murtha apoyaba (en realidad la palabra en inglés es más clara: endorse) la postura política de Michael Moore y el ala de la extrema izquierda de los demócratas. Ese es el nivel de debate/respuesta del gobierno de Bush. Mientras tanto la popularidad de Bush se desmorona en pedazos.

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