Do you think President Bush has ever read the Art of War or How to eat soup w/ a knife?

Question

And why is it that so many US military men have read those books & yet they still haven't won the war in Iraq yet?

Answer 1

Your first question: I doubt it. His reading list is rather limited.

Your seond question: Don't blame our men in uniform for the loss in Iraq. The military people have done their homework and tried to do their work. Blame Bush & Co. who thought that they could win a war on the cheap and that through privatizing some of the work of the military, they could enrich their good buddies (and bloat their campaign chests) in companies like Bechtel, Halliburton, KB&R, and a few security agencies.

Answer 2

Why read when you can snort and drink all the stuff you want at the ranch? It's not like he's ever seen combat other than on the TV.

It can't be won because we are all nationalistic people (everyone on the planet to some degree) and we would all feel the same way about being occupied by a power whos ideals are opposite of our own, as Churchill said about the Nazis, "...we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender..." can you not imagine feeling that way, whatever your nationality if such things happened, with so many innocents killed, so much disruption to services, no clean water, no electric, etc and so much chaos as a result of the invasion of your country??

I'd fight a foreign oppressor whom killed my family to the death (even if they captured my countries hated leader and got his enemies to kill him after a shambolic trial), wouldn't you?

Of course they all see through the US' puppet government which was handed control, to them and they implant divides in the public minds I.e. Sunnis, Shiites etc hating eachother & blowing eachother up, I mean, what do you think some of the secret SAS operations are going to be like? "Blow up a mosque using a remote controlled rigged vehicle and plant 'evidence' to make it appear that it was an internally conducted racial-hate crime by a suicide-bomber..."? Maybe... But this would lead to further anger and hatred, and maybe if it was say a Sunni mosque they would retaliate against the Shiites, causing more civil unrest, creating an atmosphere of fear & paranoia (sunni's & shiites didnt hate eachother so much before the invasion, they lived side-by-side), diverting the occupied publics attention off the US agents (and US controlled puppet government), to keep the military there for an extended time as 'peacekeepers,' when really they're just spending YOUR taxes on securing oil deals for big corporations to keep the dollar up against the Euro.. and making a whole damn lot of money while they're at it.

The longer the forces remain there the more money of yours (and theirs) is going to go in these big fat greedy lying moraless fascist corporate pigs pockets, and the more people are going to die needlessly.

There will NOT be peace whilst the US forces remain in Iraq (and besides, peace isn't good for the arms dealing companies, and many other government 'elite' contractors!)

Answer 3

He could not have read The Art of War. General Tzu stated that the best way to defeat your enemy is before you have to fight your enemy. If 'ol W ever read it, he didn't apply any of the lessons.

Answer 4

If reading the "Art of War" will win wars, then everybody would read it. Then again, nobody would win wars.

Answer 5

There is not any WAR in IRAQ only an invasion and further more Bush can't read!!!

Answer 6

what's it matter. he's not the one controlling tactics or what the army gets. generals are creating the tactics and congress is the one setting goals and budgeting the troops.

Answer 7

he likes the book "my pet goat"

he likes books with pictures

Answer 8

Read? Do you really think he can read?

Answer 9

i dont think he can read.

Answer 10

I think he wrote them!