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Bush was ill served by his advisors who estimated the necessary troops to get the job done. It will likely cost him the election in November. The American people will not tolerate incompetence.

Not at all. Taking Baghdad in three weeks with minimal casualties? I'd say the troop strength was estimated well. As far as securing the country, who in their right mind thought it would be easy? Umm, nobody?

See, you may live in your critical little vacuum world, Richard, but the rest of us live in reality. You cannot simply send 300K troops into Iraq and ask the rest of the world to please be on their best behavior. These senior folks are making extremely tough, life-or-death decisions with resource constraints.

Your toughest decision each day, as best I can tell, is what to gripe about next.

As far as securing the country, who in their right mind thought it would be easy? Umm, nobody?

Baloney. Go back and do some research on the conflicting views of Paul Wolfowitz and the military brass at the Pentagon back in early 2003. Wolfowitz's dismissive attitude towards their manpower estimates was thoroughly disgraceful and (now that we know they were right) should have been sufficient cause to fire him.

If we are willing to accept the notion that our country's military affairs are going to be overseen by a bunch of snot-nosed Ivy Leaguers who would eat 200 pounds of crap before they would even think of wearing a military uniform, we have no reason to complain that John Kerry, Al Gore, or Al Sharpton would be disastrous as this country's commander-in-chief.

"See, you may live in your critical little vacuum world, Richard, but the rest of us live in reality. You cannot simply send 300K troops into Iraq and ask the rest of the world to please be on their best behavior. These senior folks are making extremely tough, life-or-death decisions with resource constraints."

Look you are taking out your frustration on me. I'm not the enemy. No one is a bigger defender of the war on terrorism than I am. I was for going into Iraq; still am but my only point is that while the war went very well, the occupation has been a disaster. One can put all the lipstick on this pig they want, but it is still a pig. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Cheney all out to be fired and a new team brought in if Bush intends to be reelected.