Not sure who this Jouna is and I disagree with his analogies to Nazi Germany but the article is somewhat humorous in a cynical way. Worth reading at any rate.

jouna on Iraq: How They Lost The War They Couldn't Lose

Losing a major war of huge importance, the war "you cannot lose" is not easy, especially if you initially possess the world's most advanced military set-up. There are numerous central factors any dictatorship seeking the utter destruction of its own country and people must not forget. To secure their defeat not only in Iraq, Afghanistan I've compiled a list of mistakes you must not forget to make.

§1. First of all, a rich stock schizophrenic paranoids providing the initial insane war plan is a MUST for any dictatorship looking for a good beating. These are the people who ensure that
(a) The war is publicly waged against a self-created bogus enemy, used as a front for “justifying” illegal invasions: what Nazis meant with “international Jewish conspiracy” is nowadays referred s “global terrorist organizations” (such as al-Qaida). Such a bogus enemy is of essence and truly contributes to your defeat, since in practice this will lead to a situation where your own troops in the field do not know who and what they're fighting against – and why.
(b) At the same time the megalomaniacs are necessary as they can produce more enemies than you can win. Nobody’s ever done better than George W. Bush gang telling to the world that every nation has a choice to do: to stand with us (read “US”) or with the "terrorists". Hardly ever has a choice been made easier.
(c) As threatening as obvious world-conquest plan provided by madmen will further your downfall: leaving no space for quessing to your poor targets they'll have time enough to set up traps enough if not to stop you, then slow you down enough till you’ll run out of money and/or support.
Initially the US was – and still is – blessed with an overwhelming supply of whacos: On the other hand there's the Henry Kissinger's Vietnam War school of mad hatters, first and foremost Rumsfeld.
On the other hand there are the nutsos calling themselves ‘neoconservatives’, machined by further Zionists and supported by christian fundamentalist bananas
Adding the psychopaths representing various financial circles to these one cannot miss the point: all the necessary conditions for a decisive, crushing US defeat existed right after the Bush gang entered the White House.

§2. Do not wait till your enemy attacks: as it’s bogus, it won’t. Rather, take the initiative, assault your own people and lure it to war-footing against your unfortunate targets with ostensible attack against the bogus enemy set up by yourself. The Nazis, framing the Jews in 1933 achieved finally splendid results: the country was fully beaten and occupied by several armies of worst possible reputation (entirely deserved) in May 1945. One can justly say that the entire concept of defeat was given a new dimension by the Nazi defeat. Although the entire bunch of current US policymakers has been able to keep the pace required for such a disaster it remains unproven whether they'll be able to compete with Nazis for the honor of ultimate defeat in the history.

§3. Leave the military leadership to non-professionals, if possible to the same insane amateur dictator group that "planned" the war in the first place: under such conditions both juicy and well-developed catastrophe will most certainly follow: Stalin had good grounds for his joking that Hitler and his inside circle was his best ally throughout the war: whatever sound suggestions the professionals might have, turn them down. The US-Israeli Zionazis have not repeated the initial mistakes of the Nazis, let the profs win the wars, but lost them in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon all by themselves. Nothing else is to be expected from their future attempts, taken they're able to mount resources for them.

§4. The US has turned its own political system as an outstanding one-party dictatorship with two wings, whose dictatorship is officially called “bipartisanship”. Such a governing device is of essence in any large-scale defeat as practically the entire political elite is hopelessly entangled in its own dreamworld, forming an unfruitful basis for ideas or solutions and lacking contact and support of its own people. One could easily lose any war from such a wide basis of empty lies. As further advantage to all the opponents of the US, the system develops into family dynasties bringing necessarily power those with somewhat less mental abilities and feeds the corruption and bribery officially called “lobby”.

§5. When invading, gather an exceeding military power and use force and violence as unnecessary as relentlessly. This is very important contributor to your defeat, not to be underestimated by anyone wanting to lose. By Shock and Awe every single local inhabitant is soon turned either into a resistance fighter or their (active or passive) supporter. Under these conditions war is simply lost and only a complete genocide of the local populaltion could save the day for some couple of weeks before the land is taken by some other local inhabitants, which must be genocided in their turn.
Besides, this method ensures that your own casualties will be more than you can tolerate in the long run: you won't be able to enlist a single good, honest local man to your puppet battalions (except if he's an enemy infiltrator), and consequently, your puppet army will fall down all by itself. Accordingly, your ground army will be bound to occupy if not ad infinitun, anyway, much longer you can afford. With shock and awe there’s absolutely no way to prevail.

§6. Sustain a huge gap between the rich and the poor in your own base country: this will create a desperate stock of uneducated people always available for war: as in Vietnam the bloodthirsty, US barbarian hordes will molest all the rules of decency, right from looting, raping, torturing, executing to really horrible and serious crimes amongst the locals you’ve assaulted and the entire humanity itself. Such thorough lack of emotion in the entire occupation force is an absolute must for anyone wanting to be soundly beaten. This served well the US “enemies” in Iraq just as in Vietnam.

§7. Enter the war with wrong motives and lie about them to your people in every possible way. This will greatly advantage your defeat, when the things have started go wrong (and they will), and you’ve sunken too deep into your lies to reveal the truth. The lies will result in hugely successful defeat, since in truly dire situation the only party that could still prevent the defeat turning into a disaster, your own people no longer supports your war, but on the opposite, demands you to stop it. Not even shooting your own leg again won't take you out of trouble, but rather prove that your war has been entirely futile. The attempt to keep the "terrorists" out of your soil failed anyway.

§8. Hire the conservative press to publish blow-job-propaganda, with no-questions-asked and camorflage the entire shit as news. If it says “news" the people will believe it is. The paid professional liars will keep the ordinary people’s understanding of the course of war at least a year or two behind the catastrophe currently going on. This is will turn out as a huge profit for an dictatorship wanting the destruction of its own people as when the situation evolves to a complete catastrophy people just won’t believe it and react fast enough. With “news” services like New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Jerusalem Post, Forbes,
Haaretz, the BBC News you’re doomed from the very beginning: when in desperation you finally tell the truth to amount some real help, these “news” agencies will take care that your request won’t reach the people, taking care that your defeat won't be spoiled.

§9. Build your dictatorship to open corruption, spreading to as many directions as possible. Furthermore legalize it and make it standard, let’s say calling it “lobby”. This will provide a proper genuine loser some central advantages:
(a) Thanks to your own corruptness any puppet government you install is can compete in its rottenness with only your own government. Huge advantages result directly form this as any amount of money invested in the occupied country will simply disappear never reaching any decent local inhabitant. In a long run your entire build-up in an invaded country is bound to collapse and while the money ended up to locals has been used in buying arms (their presence being the leading cause of a hopeless civil war)
(b) When your dictatorship has been hopelessly entangled with murky deals your new masters (such as arms industry, israel, oil industry, financial complex, etc.) have become more powerful yourself. After that any attempt of changing the course, that is setting up a coherent leadership, the only hope for victory is out of question. Once the lobbys have bought you the parties behind the lobbies can form ad-hoc coalitions for their purposes steering the war literarily from defeat to defeat. They now control your country.
The US has achieved magnificient result in this sector: thanks to lobbies, especially that of AIPAC, it simply makes no sense to mention the country among independent states of the world anymore. This will open entirely new prospects for how glamorous the US defeat can form in the future: one does not expect the lobbies and the engines of violence to give up free the power they legally bought from the US policymakers, so the get their country back, the people of the United States will have to take it back by force in one day in possibly not so distant future. The countermeasures against this, changing the country into a nazi-communist styled police state are well ahead.

§10. Uprise and inflame a civil war (aka counterinsurgency) in any country you assault as your only coherent strategy. Call the legal resistance ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ and use your special forces Black Ops and frame the locals guilty according to the situation, thus tearing the country apart beyond any hope. By this you'll finally end up – instead of a proper support from at least one portion of the local people, the necessary condition for victory – with several mutually hostile parties cooperating no more with you than each other. In such circumstances you'll lose any control of the country and finally of your own army, which is reduced to necessary counter-operations to save at least its own ass in most dire circumstances.

§11. Hypocrisy, double-standards, a propaganda code language incomprehensible to ordinary uneducated masses, and any other unsound methods are efficient way to lengthen the war and thus give your defeat a depth and completeness it deserves: go on, deny that you're torturing (as you now ‘abuse’), blackmail, threat, lie, do all possible wrong ever existed on earth so that those not readily believing you as evil as you claimed in the first place finally get your point. Soon you'll have the entire world openly against you. As well known from the two previous world wars, such an attempt is not winnable.

§12. In the real world, war is war: there are only military victories achieved by coherent strategy, made, followed and executed by professionals. Never let such factors fool yourself to win, but on the opposite: let the greed of the lobby govern and finally finish all your attempts. A beautiful example of loosing strategy par excellance was the long-dead US victory strategy for Iraq: a mere glimpse to the paper showed why the US never had a chance to wind: the so-called strategy was based on three "pillars", namely economy, security and government, i.e. looting Iraq, mounting a puppet army (the main instrument for civil war) and a puppet "goverment" an instrument to control the entire shit semi-legally. Get it? The entire plan never had anything for the Iraqis themselves except for arming other Iraqis to assault, repress and oppress them. As well known, evil intentions of this calibre are bound to rebound – just as now has happened. After such a deception all credibility has been lost and there will be no new chance given by the locals.

§13. Use both weapons of mass destruction and ordinary weapons in quantities and concentrations that makes them WMDs. Such practices will show those you assaulted that they’ve no hope of survival except by putting up a merciless fight. Your unfair tactics, hypocricy, and viciousness, obvious to any local will turn your opponents the most bravest warriors on earth, each and any of them corresponding ten your own, resolved to kill as many your men and puppets he’s able. Such a stock of warriors will fight your army out of country in a way or another sooner or later simply because being braver and better.
Besides, the WMDs, especially depleted uranium (DU) will soon turn huge portions of your troops into friendly fire casualties. When this becomes know and understood, no-one will enlist your army, not even by forced by draft. Your colonial expedition is dead and done.

§14. Disguise any current catastrophe on the battlefield as your declared strategy, making the unavoidable going-on disaster your virtue. This assists your military loss significantly, as by this you’ve practically given up any constructive self-based initiative, which might have done at least something positive for winning the war.

§15. Use drugs, legal and illegal (prozac, sedatives, cocaine, amphetamine,...) as many sorts as you can and as much as your timeschedules allow. Gather collagues who're doing the same. Taking your dozes will make you feel just fine, when things aren’t. This creates an emotional and de facto gap between you, reality and the ordinary people. You’ll lose the control (and understanding of the situation) and be babbling about the “victory” with enemy at the gates: as the Nazis, the US leadership has been doping with most spectacular ways: giving false statements forgot immediately afterwards, entangling to tautologies, all well-known signs of advanced junkies in action.

§16. Never, never pay for your war in cash in advance: those properly securing their country’s doom understand that a mere military defeat just isn’t enough. The ordinary people must be wholly ruined and the best way to accomplish the mission is to drown them to war debts. Approaching a war from this angle guarantees two other important factors in defeat, namely
(a) While fantasizing to your people that the costs of war will be covered by resources gained from the occupied country, you'll not only reveal your evil intentions to people you've made your enemy but your military plan his HQ. Your army becomes a sitting duck.
(b) You'll make any withdrawal (and saving your army) impossible as your financial owners and masters now consider your temporary conquest as their property, which you must hold and defend in all circumstances. To achieve a decisive or crushing defeat you must break your army first. This is the standard procedure of all failed dictatorships of the history, and the Bush government appears to honor the tradition.

§17. An excellent idea, not to be overlooked by an ambitious and thorough loser is to make minor improvements to a war lost earlier and then rotate the losing concept. Good work was done in this respect by Kissinger-Rumsfeld team who rotated the Vietnam war to Iraq with minor dys-provements, which – as a rule – have only fastened the catastrophe. Taking this sort of approach, a kind of defeat insurance shows historical wisdom of high degree: which failed once is almost guaranteed to fail again. In Iraq it certainly worked.

§18. Fanatics, whether on your side or the opposite, are a God's gift for all the losers in all times: as there always exists them you'll always have a bogus enemy. Do not forget that your very own fanatics, for example Nazi party members of fundamental christians do not only give the widest support base for war, but – when things are finally going horribly wrong for you – will prevent you from changing the course, them actually believing the rot you lied to them. Just for this you'll find the ways of our Lord – whether he was called Jesus, Hitler or something else – amazing: Heil Hynkel!

§19. The Nazis never understood how total a defeat could be taken foreigners (Zionist jews in the case of the US) are allowed to dictate country's military expeditions: the Zionist lobby, deceiving the US armed forces to Iraq has made marvelous job: in just couple of years the US army has been thrown on the edge of collapse thanks to Zionist who hi-jacked the most precisious asset the US had. Lacking any natural patriotic feeling, which instructs you to protect your own Army before anything else in dire straits, the Zionists have puppeted the US Army and harmed it more than any other enemy in the entire history of the United States. "It's easy to pay from other man's wallet", they say. As this is well known and understood now in US military circles on cannot fail seeing that a new frontline of war has appeared between the US Armed Forces personnel and the Israeli lobby. This is a remarkable sign of defeat, possibly finally leading to a US civil war waged on the ownership of the US Armed Forces. With such an outcome the final dissolution of the United States of Israel may turn out even more spectacular than that of the Nazis in 1945.