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This is one of the most uninspired, childish, and boring articles I have read today, but I feel compelled to comment because of one line: the one that said Bush failed by not explaining his grand vision to the people of America.

What a complete load of bull. First of all, isn't this insulting condescension towards anyone that doesn't share their view part of why they lost? I'd say so.

Look, Cinny, sweety, lemme splain you somethin. The reforming the Mideast into one big peaceful democracy thng that they talk about all the time—not only will it never happen, no matter how long we stay in Iraq or anywhere else, but the people who pushed us into the war don't want it to happen. They want the Mideast to be a smoking hellhole. I would try explaining it to you but I'm just another idiot too stupid to grasp the grand vision, so I'll just leave you with a link that explains everything that has happened since 9/11, and it's even authored by your favorites: Cheney, Rummy, Wolfie, Feith, Perle, and all the other now defunct hitler youth you worship:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

It goes into detail about how we need to reshape our armed forces to stay the lone superpower in the world after the collapse of the USSR. But there are two lines that are especially revealing (they're in there, check)
"While the regime of Saddam Hussein poses no real threat to the United States, it provides adequate justification for establishing an American foothold in the Middle East,"
and
"Motivating the public to agree to such a campaign would require a Pearl Harbor-type event."

Originally written in 1993, submitted to Congress in 1996.

Even if those words didn't exist, it doesn't take a genius to see that rebuilding an entire region of the world at the expense of our soldiers and our entire treasury in the hope that it might provide security decades from now is not that smart. Also, lots of other people have tried and it has never worked, ever.