Some of us knew it would not work there. It was a noble effort... but the battle on terror would have been better fought with a gazillion bombs dropped on them until they gave up. (if ever) An initial report I read said that 75% of the people in Iraq did not like the US and would fight against us to the death. There was no way we were gonna kill all those people, nor change their minds. We just weren't going to do what it would take because of the politics.
In the meantime we got a lot of guys with missing limbs, and a lot of spouses here with great loss.
Didn’t Deputy SoD Paul Wolfowitz say our troops would be greeted with Rose petals? Fools.