[iconoclast]

but nobody EVER said winning would be an easy walk in the park.

Au contraire!

I heard Vice President (last throes) Cheney say it just this morning! It was pre-war video tape of his his famous "we'll be welcomed as liberators interview".

You Bots and your mindless denial kill me.

But its our troops getting killed that matter.

[nairBResal]

We were welcomed by the Shiites.
we were welcomed by the Kurds.

The other guys, the oppressor,rapist and gasser of the aforementioned, well we all know that they had everything to loose and would never welcome their own destruction. Given all that I don't see how VP Cheney was wrong.