"It should be said that this was the likely result for whoever won the White House last November"
I do not agree. I think Kerry would have had a more difficult time getting any of EU onboard because Kerry was changing his mind every day (sometimes more than once a day). Who would want to partner up with somebody like that ..??
Besides .. even if the elections had come off the same (and I'm not sure they would have), I suspect Kerry would have immediately followed Kennedy's calls for withdrawal and pulled our troops out - commiting the very same crime they did in Vietnam.
Iraq would have exploded into complete chaos - and IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ALL GWB'S FAULT!!
And then it would have been a real nightmare here in America.
GOD Almighty was surely watching over America.
Kerry would have dragged the US into the UN so fast our heads would still be spinning. Iraq would be imploding, we'd be facing higher taxes and Hill would be busy drawing up a big list of stuff to take away from us.