[Alberta's Child]

I guess this one was supposed to be different because.....?

. . . because countless people in the Bush administration made it very clear that it would be different?

[Blind Eye Jones]

“. . . because countless people in the Bush administration made it very clear that it would be different?”

You're just reaffirming the point that mistakes are made. Yes, mistakes were made by the Bush administration. More important, more right actions are making the war/peace winnable.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Creating expectations at home doesn’t change the unique problems each war creates.

Bush should listen to the Generals, I feel he did.
But even Lincoln had to struggle there too.

Personally, I myself thought that we would have had far more troops killed, and that things would be farther along by now.

So it is taking longer then I expected, but far less have died then I expected.

But again, nobody has ever done anything like this before on this kind of scale. It is the first time.
sure there are parallels with other wars, but this one is incredibly unique because of the nature of the enemies.

I also think the Iraqis had to become war weary.
It took suffering under the islamo facists for a while for that to sink in. I dontthink the surge would have worked until that happened.

stressing that is just my opinions, I am no military expert. But I think I am not too far off.