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GWB viewed the undertaking of this war as an essentially riskless enterprise. He --and thus Rumsfeld--took a casual approach to the military effort. They were deluded and their understanding of the lesson of Gulf war I was that it was predicted to be a painless war without a significant incident of American or British deaths. GWB saw war with Iraq as casualty free and the US effort as trivial.

In fact, the actual invasion and deposing of Saddam was consistent with that belief. It was the total lack of understanding how to occupy a defeated nation and stabilize it that caused the present international insurgency confronting our troops. The rejection of real generals who attempted to tell truth to power and the interposition of their own arm chair Commander in Chief phoney baloney strattegy, like Adolph and his General Staff in the early 1940s and Saddam in Gulf War I, neither bush nor Rumsfeld had any idea of how to accomplish the mission. And when the generals told them how much in error they were, it was retirement or banishment to the boondogs for those guys. They then rolled in the Perfumed Prince Generals who told the dumb president and his even dumber SecDef that whatever they chose to do could be accomplished easily and with very few troops.

Bush and his cabal are a travesty and monument to ineptitude born of ignorance and arrogance.

Bush and his cabal are a travesty and monument to ineptitude born of ignorance and arrogance.

Really, calling an elected US President and his cabinet a 'cabal' makes you look dumb... and rabid....

Pretty much you got it all in there: "Troof to powah", "Bush is Hitler", "Rumsfeld is stupid", "absence of real generals".

I think you hit all the leftist agitprop points there.

Me? I'm still enjoying my General Shitsacki Self Esteem Beret.

GWB saw war with Iraq as casualty free and the US effort as trivial.

I have no idea where you got THAT idea. I've never seen him speak about it with anything but seriousness and respect for the men and women fighting it. He said at the beginning that it was going to last a LONG time and there would be casualties, but that the effort was worth it because we're dealing with an enemy who wants nothing less than our annihilation.