When recalling my work history (try to do little of it!), I do recall trying to accurately write the implications of data. Most bureaucracy is driven by ideology of one sort of another; data is only generally useful if it supports the biases of the decision makers. Trying to reflect data, in short, can be an exercise in futility! Yet, I did feel compelled to do my best.
I find it incredible that the administration can find so many to write such distortions of history evidenced again by the President's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Comparing Iraq to Vietnam is so distorted that one can only be amazed by language can be used to convey anything. In Iraq, we at least fought a nation-state with one objective, viz., the unification of "their" country. We made a peace deal with a specific leader of that nation-state. There was no civil war among those who defended "their" nation-state. How this set of affairs is comparable to the Iraq experience is beyond me.
In the same speech, the President dared the credibility of the American people once again by saying that "a free Iraq was in reach". Wow!
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