The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.
This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.
War is failure of diplomacy.
Much of Mr. Bush's 28 percent approval rating is born not of 'failed policies' - of which there are many - but of the ill-gotten gains pilfered from a pre-Bush inauguration strategy to send the message to Republicans that the Democrats play politics harder and better.
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.
The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.
War remains the decisive human failure.
It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.