That is too funny. I was at BBQ this past weekend with a bunch of very white, very rich people who are even much older than I am...( i.e. the prime Fox demographic) ..... and they were even popping that line.
Really, You think so? Read Cobra II http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375422625/102-0711401-7665762?v=glance&n=283155 and then get back to me. This was an abortion on a pogo stick from inception to deception.
I haven't read that book, but the reviews on Amazon seem to support what I am claiming, namely that the planning for the post-war occupation was extremely unsound. I have to think a different strategy would have yielded better results, but that is certainly not something I can prove. Frankly, I am not sure having Saddam in power would be worse than what we have now or will have if we pull out.
Read the book and get back to me. Also, You better check with your Neo-Con talking points handlers before you say that....you may be excommunicated in a foreign land while blindfolded fresh from the swing deck of a C-130. We call that a HAHO opening.
FINALLY!!!!!! SOME ONE WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON!!! "Baghdad - and therefore central Iraq - will in such a case slide after Basra and the south into the unofficial new Iranian empire " " Who is this guy? Replace Rumsfeld with this guy and Americans will already have won half the war.