[Timber Rattler]

Yes, and I said it then, the Bush Administration should not have hung their hats on Saddam and WMDs, but his direct sponsorship of terrorism, not necessarily Al Qaeda, but Hamas, Fatah, PLO, PFLP, etc. which had killed many Americans over the years and was then blowing up Israelis with suicide bomb attacks. I remember our troops finding several suicide bomb vest "factories" once Baghdad fell, but those stories soon went down the memory hole as the search for WMDs took center stage.

Bush also failed when he let the Turks block the 4th ID, which gave Saddam and many terrorists an escape route to the north. Finally, after briefly resting, regrouping, repairing, and reloading, the military should have right wheeled straight for Tehran---the Iranians were terrified at the time that they were next, now not so much.

All of this was authorized under Congress' GWOT resolution, but Bush and Rumsfeld lost their nerve at critical moments during the campaign and ended up in the old nation building trap he had long criticized himself, with a full blown "dead end" insurgency on his hands, backed by Al Qaeda in the north and the Iranians in the south.

[cripplecreek]

All of this was authorized under Congress' GWOT resolution, but Bush and Rumsfeld lost their nerve at critical moments during the campaign and ended up in the old nation building trap he had long criticized himself, with a full blown "dead end" insurgency on his hands, backed by Al Qaeda in the north and the Iranians in the south.

The way I see it, if we are going to be building nations, we get to pick the puppet dictator because the idea of muslim democracy is pure fantasy.