Pentagon's own institute calls Iraq war 'major debacle'

I am tempted to put this under the heading of "No shit, Sherlock."

Most folks with a conscience and a modicum of common sense figured out a while ago that the war in Iraq is FUBAR.

Nonetheless, the fact that the Pentagon's own "premier military educational institute" now says the same thingis striking.

The war in Iraq has become "a major debacle" and the outcome "is in doubt" despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according to a highly critical study published Thursday by the Pentagon's premier military educational institute.

The report released by the National Defense University raises fresh doubts about President Bush 's projections of a U.S. victory in Iraq just a week after Bush announced that he was suspending U.S. troop reductions.

And get this -- the report was written last fall. That was the height of Surge-Mania, the time when the national media castrated itself when it comes to challenging the Bush Administration on Iraq police.

It was the time when pundits were saying that Iraq had gone away as an issue.

And, it also seems that the report reaches conclusions that could have just been cut and pasted from DKos about three years ago:

"Compounding all of these problems, our efforts there (in Iraq ) were designed to enhance U.S. national security, but they have become, at least temporarily, an incubator for terrorism and have emboldened Iran to expand its influence throughout the Middle East ," the report continued.

Better late than never, I suppose.

The sad thing, of course, is that this report will immediately be tossed into the trash can at the Pentagon and the White House, which will ignore it like it's global warming.