Asserting we had a strategy for Iraq when we self-evidently did not is not going to get the pubbies out of a well-deserved lynching at the polls.
War is serious business and not for amateurs, like the one's who got us into Iraq or the one's like you who are trying to defend it.
Strategy - you two don't know the first thing about strategy. Answer one question - what would victory in Iraq look like if we could achieve it?
Victory would look like Germany or Japan. And we are still there. And those wars weren’t planned either, as you already well know!