[lonestar67]

I am glad Bremer and others are fighting back on the “failed war” meme.

Conservative and liberal hacks alike have taken to absurd characterizations of the Iraq war which has also been a great success.

Conservatives deserve to lose with they are not even willing to defend blatant successes like the Iraq war. Obsessed with some pathological sense of identity that requires ‘purifying” the party, some conservatives have done real damage to their own interests by agreeing to bad critiques of the Iraq war.

Saddam Hussein was a terrible ruthless dictator who used chemical weapons on his own people and wanted the world to believe he would increase his dangerous stockpiles. He is gone from this earth and Iraq is rapidly becoming the envy of the Arab world.

The pundits will soon eat W’s dust and I will relish the day.

[ModelBreaker]

Conservatives deserve to lose with they are not even willing to defend blatant successes like the Iraq war. Obsessed with some pathological sense of identity that requires ‘purifying” the party, some conservatives have done real damage to their own interests by agreeing to bad critiques of the Iraq war.

Huh? You have a few nuts like Buchanan and Paul. Other than that, conservatives are the only group that still support the war. You might notice that the Warners, Hagels, and their ilk are the wobbly ones (swaying with the breeze)--and they are hardly conservatives. The RINO's are working to stab Bush on the war much more seriously than the tiny fringe of conservatives (if you can call Buchanan and Paul conservatives) that oppose the war.

[LS]

Exactly right. From WMDs to the "dissolution" of the Iraqi Army, the Administration NEVER, EVER should have backed off one iota---in fact, they should have been, in PR terms, on offense the whole time.

The minute they admitted there were no WMDs in Iraq, the PR war was 90% lost.

We did exactly the same thing with the Iraqi army that we did with the Wehrmacht.

[Jim Noble]

Conservatives deserve to lose with they are not even willing to defend blatant successes like the Iraq war

Reverse BDS.

[roses of sharon]

Amazing that the contrarians are convinced their way would have worked, and how do they know that?

For example, those that insist we should have shot looters and restored order.

Those same contrarians would have complained that shooting the looters is what caused all the violence.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.