One of the most common demands of President Bush's critics on the war in Iraq is that he "admit mistakes" that he has made. Leave aside the question of the impact on Soldiers of a war leader going before all humanity and telling the world that his troops in the field are the victims of blunders. If admission of mistakes is to be the measure of virtue, those very same critics have a lot of fessin' up to do. We came across an article yesterday written by Seymour Hersh on March 31, 2003 in the New Yorker  (in a section hilariously titled 'Fact') 11 days into the Iraq War when the attack paused for re—supply and to ride out a sandstorm.  Here are two paragraphs from that article: As the ground campaign against Saddam Hussein faltered last week, with attenuated supply lines and a lack of immediate reinforcements, there was anger in the Pentagon. Several senior war planners complained to me in interviews that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his inner circle of...(Read Full Post)