[The_Media_never_lie]

The plan of al Qaeda and Bin Laden from the start was to lure the US into endless conflict in the Muslim world to drain our national blood and treasure. Mr Cheney and his boss fell into al Qaeda’s trap in a disasterous way in Iraq. Now Mr. Cheney tries to put all the blame on President Obama. Of course entitlements need to be controlled and Mr. Obama is greatly incompetent, but I don’t think Mr. Cheney with the history of his administstraion’s awful blunder is the most fitting spokesman to bemoan a situation his administration’s blunder greatly helped to put us in.

Exactly. It doesn't matter who incited us into the war, we simply could not afford it. We must learn to fight asymmetrical warfare on the cheap.

[RobbyS]

A war is endless only if you do not put an end to it. By not installing an Iraqi government and giving it control of the Iraqi Army in the summer of ’03, we put ourselves in the impossible position of acting like a colonial power. We knew what that happened in the Phillipines after 1898.