{"id":5144,"date":"2008-04-19T12:32:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/about-that-national-defense-un.html"},"modified":"2008-04-19T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T12:32:18","slug":"about-that-national-defense-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/about-that-national-defense-un.html","title":{"rendered":"About that National Defense University study that said the Iraq war was a “debalcle”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it turned out that it wasn’t a National Defense University study or a Pentagon study, it was some guy’s personal research project<\/a> and it wasn’t about the whole war just a part of it:<\/p>\n

The Miami Herald story (“Pentagon Study: War is a ‘Debacle’ “) distorts the nature of and intent of my personal research project. It was not an NDU study, nor was it a Pentagon study. Indeed, the implication of the Herald story was that this study was mostly about current events. Such is not the case. It was mainly about the period 2002-04. The story also hypes a number of paragraphs, many of which are quoted out of context. The study does not “lay much of the blame” on Secretary Rumsfeld for problems in the conduct of the war, nor does it say that he “bypassed the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” It does not single out “Condoleeza Rice and Stephen Hadley” for criticism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go read the rest to find out what the report really is about.
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