[antiRepublicrat]

I keep hearing people who should know better claiming Iraq was a mistake, but never venture a guess at what would or could have happened if we left Saddam in power.

Going there was not a mistake. How it was handled afterwards, BIG mistake. The "we'll be greeted by everyone as liberators and everything will be cool" mentality was not a conservative one, and left us unprepared when the violence erupted.

[motzman]

The "we'll be greeted by everyone as liberators and everything will be cool" mentality was not a conservative one...

No one ever said "everything will be cool". Some said in some areas of Iraq "we will be greeted as liberators", which was true.

How bout some other nightmarish predicitions that were made that turned out to be hogwash? No one ever talks about those.

Were mistakes made? Of course, they always are.

Bush always said, this will be a long and difficult struggle, an he 'aint lyin'....