Why are we hearing this now...why didn't we hear it four years ago. Nevermind, I know why: Donald Rumsfeld is why we didn't hear it!
I think the president took a gamble that Iraq would be conquered and under control fairly quickly. A gamble that may have been worth taking, and may even have been visionary, but one that he lost.
Losing the gamble changes everything, which is why we're hearing this now.
I agree. The President of the United States told Congress and the American people that Saddam was close to possessing nuclear weapons. I figured he had to have had better intelligence that I did, so naturally I supported the invasion. I remember the Vietnam fiasco. I hoped we learned something from it. I was wrong. Bush cast himself as Johnson, and Rumsfeld as McNamara. In order to win the War on Terrorism, we need more skillful people in office.
Eight years of the military being decimated at the hands of Clinton/Gore had little to do with it.
The people of this nation and we conservatives scream about the 'deficit' with LITTLE knowledge of what it would cost to rebuild, update existing equipment AND start manufacturing NEW equipment....WHILE trying to expand the ALL VOLUNTEER force and trying to recover economically from a recession and 911 and then prosecute WAR on TWO FRONTS and rebuild and democratize a nation that doesn't have the foggiest idea of what democracy is!!
It is just easier to BLAME BUSH and his SECDEF for NOT doing something while what they are doing is never quite good enough and always WRONG!!