View Full Version : Retired general: Iraq invasion was 'strategic disaster'



crabby_cruiser
10-02-2005, 03:12 PM
From The Lowell Sun (http://www.lowellsun.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3072005):


The invasion of Iraq was the “greatest strategic disaster in United States history,” a retired Army general said yesterday, strengthening an effort in Congress to force an American withdrawal beginning next year., Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, a Vietnam veteran, said the invasion of Iraq alienated America's Middle East allies, making it harder to prosecute a war against terrorists.

The U.S. should withdraw from Iraq, he said, and reposition its military forces along the Afghan-Pakistani border to capture Osama bin Laden and crush al Qaeda cells.

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This general only says this because he hates the troops, or at least that's what war supporters have accused other Iraq War opponents of being.