[american_ranger]

Isn’t it funny that the press has such short memories and never can connect the dots but we on Free Republic can and do?

[gov_bean_ counter]

I agree, however the "good guys" aren't doing such a good job or 'splaining things these days either.

IMO, we could have had 500,000 plus boots on the ground and an insurgency would have developed anyway . They hid among the people and the people were not going to give them up until
1. they were absolutely sure thar Saddam was not going to return to power, and
2. they were reasonably sure the US was going to see this thing through to a reasonable conclusion.