December 2004's Greatest Hit.

You know how sitcoms get when the writers start running out of ideas? They put together a flashback show. You know, so & so has major surgery, their friends then are in the waiting room and reminisce which of course contain flashbacks to old episodes.

Well, I have not run out of ideas but as I said time is tight. Hehehehe, not to worry I am going to tease you with some original material in the next blog.

Ah John McCensor McCain. He is like the New York Giants, I can never figure out on which side he is going to be on. Ahhh yesss, the maverick. Well, the maverick out on their own is also subject to easy attack.

Anyway, December of last year there was a little furor that erupted over Donald Rumsfeld's comments that you go to battle with the army you have. This was about the time people were all a twitter over the lack of armor for the troops.

Here is an excerpt of what I had to say about all of that:

Anyway Donald Rumsfeld comment is similar to one made by Abraham Lincoln to the commander of the Grand Army of the Potomac (GAP) General McDowell. Lincoln had ordered McDowell to attack the Confederates but McDowell had told Lincoln that the GAP needed more training; they were not ready for battle. Abraham retorted that this may be true but the enemy is green too, you are all green alike. Not quite the same but the General did not feel his army was ready for the job but Lincoln told him the time for preparation was over.

If you are a writer, you know you never submit a perfect piece for publication. It always needs one more revision, one more round of editing but you have to publish eventually. We all get this feeling when it comes time to do something risky we want more time to prepare but none of us has unlimited amoutns [sic] of time. We must act and too often we err on the side of tardiness rather than rashness.

Rumsfeld and the commanders knew they were not ready but the oppurtunity [sic] had come. To demand perfection is a clever way to say we should not have toppled Saddam without having to appear as defending Saddam.

Source: Blogger Beer - McCain's comments.

You are never perfectly prepared, to demand perfect preparation before acting is refusing to act.