[AnotherUnixGeek]

"We were misled, we were given evidence that was not true,"

Baloney. No one was misled except those who fixated on the WMD issue (which, to be fair, included a number of people in the executive branch). Deposing a dictator who necessitated the stationing of US troops in Saudi Arabia, establishing a democracy and ally in the region, creating a catalyst for democratic uprisings in the surrounding dictatorships - all of these reasons were and are valid and important.

In hindsight, disbanding the Iraqi army, purging the Iraqi governmental apparatus at the behest of the Shi'ites, and not committing enough soldiers to the occupation seem to have been mistakes according to the experts, but the reconstruction of Iraq is happening, and the results can only be positive.

[Fenris6]

In hindsight, disbanding the Iraqi army, purging the Iraqi governmental apparatus at the behest of the Shi'ites, and not committing enough soldiers to the occupation seem to have been mistakes according to the experts...

Feh. If we had done all those things, we still would have made entirely different mistakes: Baathists in the Iraqi Army massacre Shia and the "experts" would instead complain that we should have disbanded the Iraqi Army blah blah blah. Etc ad nausem.