I said this in another thread and Ill repeat it here,
you can spread the blame for not preventing 9/11, but the IRaq
venture is Bushs own idea, and plan from the start.

and yet every step of the way the Bush admin. has been wrong,
there were no wmds, they werent greeted as liberators,
remember Wolfowitz saying that SHinsekis troop estimates for holding Iraq were WILDLY inaccurate.. right.

(not enough to prevent the widespread looting and destruction following the collapse)
if they have enough troops why are they asking other countries to send in more? what does it matter what passport they have?
(in fact yesterday they announced they will be sending more)

the plan is to hand over power June 30th, and when Paul Bremer was asked the other day to whom they will hand it over? he said "Thats a good question". (bad answer as far as Im concerned)

why is it June 30th? the only reason is timing for the next US election.
and they will stay as long as necessary? it will have to be years.
its time to fire the idiot chicken hawks like Rumsfeld and WOlfowitz,
the top brass in the pentagon is hated by the uniforms anyway.
they havent a clue what to do next. ANd the problem with BUsh is that whenever theres any opposition he just digs in his heels.

after 9/11 the much of the world sided with the US, all of that goodwill has been squandered by BUSH,

the Bush administration believes the US has the power to do it alone,
yet at the same time they ask the UN and other nations to participate in reconstruction but are not willing to hand over any power.

with incredibly stupid timing they send Powell around trying to get the Europeans to forgive Iraqi debts, at the same time announcing reconstruction contracts will only go to US and (coalition of 'willing')

whoever inherits the mess in November knows the US will have to stay for a long time, and it will need to do it with the help of other nations and the UN to have any real legitimacy.

its time to build a real coalition but no one in the white House except Powell is any good at that.