Historic Quote from Lawrence of Arabia . . . Applicable to Bush of Bagdad?

[rkledgerwood]

"[We] have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. [We] have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information....Our unfortunate troops...under hard conditions of climate and supply, are policing an immense area, paying dearly every day in lives for the willfully wrong policy of the civil administration in Baghdad."
-- T.E. Lawrence, 1920