Friday, March 31, 2006

Thousands of Mistakes.

Condolezzza Rice said in Blackburn, England on Friday March 31, 2006, that the US had made mistakes in Iraq, “perhaps thousands of them”.

Thousands, eh? Was she talking about 100,000? 200,000, 500,000? Perhaps only 10,000? Let’s go with the conservative figure - just10,000 mistakes. That works out to 2,000 mistakes a year in the first 5 years of the Bush Administration. That’s 5.48 mistakes a day or one every 4.38 hours. And that’s only in Iraq. And only the ones she recongnizes.

She didn’t venture a guess about how many things they had done right. But it would be interesting to see what she thinks their batting average is. It would be even more interesting to see her before the House of Commons responding to questions like the Prime Minister has to do.

Even more interesting would be to see the members of the Bush Administration answer to the world's public and explain what their management objectives and performance standards had been. Thousands of mistakes might be the kindest appraisal of all. Has anyone seen Carl Sagan lately?