[nonliberal]

Yes, horribly botched. He listened to the pencil pushing bean counter Rumsfeld instead of the troops on the ground. The Humvees were not armored up until almost two years into the war, costing too many lives. Mookie Al-Sader is still breathing. American contractors were burned alive and hanged from a bridge in Falujah with NO response from Bush.

Until the surge, it WAS a quagmire. Fortunately, someone got to Bush and got him to agree to the surge.

I can tell you why you don’t care about Liberia. Taylor killed more than 250,000 people. He sponsored horrific human crimes in Sierra Leone. His generals killed children in ritualistic acts before battle against civilians. His troops kicked around the schools of victims in post battle soccer matches.

And this was our problem because?

[lonestar67]

Its our problem because we are all human.

Its our problem because the world contains WMD.

Its our problem because this is the perfect environment for terrorism.

Its our problem the modern world is not George Washington’s world. We are not and never can be isolated.

[lonestar67]

Fallujah was retaken. Armor was placed on the humvees as fast as possible. Al Sader is absolutely irrelevant to Iraqi politics which as a Martyr he would have been much more relevant.

No response is false. Our soldiers and snipers have killed thousands of their warriors. The iraqi army has done the same.

Statements like yours have killed lots of American soldiers and innocent Iraqis.

Rumsfeld was awesome and completely succesful. Again, all of his detractors were at every step proven wrong. No civil war. Successful elections. Low casualties. Quick capitulation by Saddam. No sustained urban warfare.

Rumsfeld made Vietnam look like a joke. The effort by you and other reactionary liberals to make Iraq into Vietnam failed.