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He had also laid out a coherent U.S. military and political strategy to deal with the protracted world war he believed us to be in. You could disagree with the strategy, and many did. But no one could deny that such a strategy had been laid out.

I have to respectfully disagree with this somewhat. I don't think President Bush has done nearly enough to plainly and simply explain his strategy to the country. I understand what he's doing, and agree 100% with the strategy. I just don't think the average American has heard it enough from him. That allows the Dems to keep up their insistent anti-war wail enough to fool some of those who aren't paying sufficient attention.

If you had to pick one flaw in the superbly organized U.S. invasion of Iraq, as Jed Babbin recently pointed out, it would be the lack of an element of surprise.

In today's world, I don't think you can have much of an element of surprise, honestly. We could have avoided putting every little strategic initiative on the front pages of our papers, but the inevitability of the invasion was obvious to anyone paying attention.